How to Reserve Space for Crash Dump Files

1. Be sure you have completed any required tasks identified in Table 69-1.

2. Become superuser.

3. Change to the /var/crash/system-name directory.

   # cd /var/crash/system-name

   system-name

   The system for which you want to save crash dump files.

4. Using the editor of your choice, create a file named minfree that contains a number specifying the minimum available free space (in kilobytes) that must remain available for crash dumps.

5. Exit the file, saving changes.

Example--Reserving Space for Crash Dump Files

The following example shows the contents of a minfree file that reserves 500 Kbytes of available free space to contain crash dump files for the system saturn.

$ more /var/crash/saturn/minfree
500