Unable To Delete Inactive Dump Files

[Tracyp]

Hi all

I am trying to clean up a couple of inactive dumpfiles.

I have followed instructions to do this but keep getting this error:

Unlink of file /vmfs/volumes/**********************.dumpfile failed: Device or resource busy.

I have identified the owner host via its MAC address.

Of the three dumpfiles both of the two I am trying to remove are flagged as FALSE for "active" and "configured"

I have used the flag --force but still get the above error.

Why is this saying the resource is busy if it is inactive??

thanks

Tracy

[SavkoorSuhas]

Hello Tracy,

Let's try this.

From the owner of host for the coredump file, SSH into this host:

Run the command

# esxcli system coredump file list

Both active and configured should be false

Only then

# esxcli system coredump file remove -f <path_of_file>

Suhas

[Tracyp]

Tried it no go

[Tracyp]

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