/var is full (cores)

[Jason Rossi]

Hi,

VSM 7.7 here. /var is 100% full. I searched for the largest files and found the following is the likely culprit. My simple question... can I delete the older core dumps here to free up the space?

[root@LowerCampus1 cores]# ls -lh
total 27G
-rw------- 1 nobody nobody 3.8G Nov 23 14:17 core-video-1_1.11853
-rw------- 1 nobody nobody 3.9G Nov 23 14:38 core-video-1_1.6854
-rw------- 1 nobody nobody 3.8G Nov 23 14:03 core-video-1_1.8641
-rw------- 1 nobody nobody 211M Nov 28 09:00 core-video-1_2.17735
-rw------- 1 nobody nobody 4.0G Nov 26 00:47 core-video-1_2.25270
-rw------- 1 nobody nobody 4.0G Nov 25 21:11 core-video-1_2.28294
-rw------- 1 nobody nobody 4.0G Nov 26 12:23 core-video-1_2.762
-rw------- 1 nobody nobody 4.0G Nov 28 03:35 core-video-1_2.8413

[Scott Olsen · Accepted solution]

You should be able to, yes.  Although something is clearly wrong given the frequency with which things are crashing / dumps are being created :-/

personally, I'd purge all but the most recent and get Cisco TAC involved ASAP.

All the best.