ESX Partition / full.

[Tom28]

Hello

Yesterday i saw that one of our two esx server is not connected with the Virtal Center.

So i logged in over ssh and saw that the partition / is full. The VM's that running on this server are still up.

It was the /var/core folder that contains 209 .core files like 12456.core from the 3. May.They all are ~27MB and summary 3.5GB. So i moved some of these files

to another partition and restarted the services to connect to VC.

It works and everything was ok. But what are these for files and why is this happend????

Thank' for your answers

Thomas

[avlieshout]

These files are core dumps from processes and hence might be from vms.

Look at the time and date of these files and check the ESX logs to find out what happend. The coredumps are made for debugging purpose.

If you don't need them, you can safely delete these files.

I recommend putting /var/core in its own partition, so it cannot fill up your root partition.

-Arnim van Lieshout

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