Path: utzoo!utgpu!bnr-vpa!bnr-fos!bnr-public!hwt
From: hwt@bnr-public.uucp (Henry Troup)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Sun dumps to swap partition
Message-ID: <485@bnr-fos.UUCP>
Date: 8 May 89 14:52:12 GMT
References: <472@bnr-fos.UUCP>
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In article <472@bnr-fos.UUCP>  I wrote:
>Possibly a naive question: 
> 
>My Sun, 3/160 SunOs 4.0, diskfull, dumps to the same partition it
>swaps to, every time there's a "panic".  Do I need to do anything 
>to reclaim swap space ?
>

Once I RTFM, I found that unless I run savecore(8) to save any core
dumps, they will be overwriten and never bother me again.  
 
Definitely a naive question.


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