Hello,
If you make a symlink from your swap area to /dev/vmdump all works as
expected. Actually then
/sbin/vmdump config
command will do this for you.
It reads the crash dump from your swap and places them on your root
partition in whatever directory you specify.
Best regards,
Edward L. Haletky
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-lkcd@xxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:owner-lkcd@xxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of
> achowdhry@xxxxxxxxxxx
> Sent: Tuesday, January 23, 2001 5:56 AM
> To: lkcd@xxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Query regarding char device
>
>
>
>
> Hi,
> I am trying to install your Lkcd ver 3.0 in linux (
> kernel ver : 2.4.0
> , Redhat 6.2 ) . while installing we need to create a raw (
> character ) device
> and associate it to a swap area.( ie we should be able to run
> mkswap utility on
> it ). Now I don't know how to do that.
> It will be very nice if you can provide me some help regarding this.
> Waiting for ur reply
>
> Thanks and Regards
> Atul Chowdhry
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