dumpadm Configure Operating System Crash Dump

Synopsis

/usr/sbin/dumpadm [-nuy][-c content-type][-d dump-device]
  [-m min k | min m | min%][-s savecore-dir][-r root-dir]

Description

Use the administrative dumpadm command to manage the configuration of the operating system crash dump facility. A crash dump is a disk copy of the physical memory of the computer at the time of a fatal system error. When a fatal operating system error occurs, a message describing the error is printed to the console. The operating system then generates a crash dump by writing the contents of physical memory to a predetermined dump device, which is typically a local disk partition. You can configure the dump device with the dumpadm command. Once the crash dump has ...

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