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Document the dumpdir variable, and write a better description of the dumpdev

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Dag-Erling Smørgrav 2001-10-10 00:45:52 +00:00
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@ -1639,18 +1639,25 @@ then these are the flags to pass to the
daemon.
.It Va dumpdev
.Pq Vt str
If not set to
.Dq NO
then point kernel crash-dumps at the swap device
specified as
.Em value .
When the system restarts,
a crash-dump found on the specified device
will typically be stored in the
.Pa /var/crash
directory by the
Indicates the device (usually a swap partition) to which a crash dump
should be written in the event of a system crash.
The value of this variable is passed as the argument to
.Xr dumpon 8 .
To disable crash dumps, set this variable to
.Dq NO .
.It Va dumpdir
.Pq Vt str
When the system reboots after a crash and a crash dump is found on the
device specified by the
.Va dumpdev
variable,
.Xr savecore 8
program.
will save that crash dump and a copy of the kernel to the directory
specified by the
.Va dumpdir
variable.
The default value is
.Dq /var/crash .
.It Va enable_quotas
.Pq Vt bool
Set to