crash dumps and slices (?)

[Sascha Wildner]

Gergo Szakal wrote:
Hello,
If i set dumpdev to the slice (bad term?) representing /var, will the 
system be able to access /home ? (asking because symlinked /var/crash to 
/home/var.crash)
I think you're confusing two things there:

dumpdev is usually set to a swap partition, as in

dumpdev="/dev/ad0s1b"

The /var/crash vs. /home/var.crash issue becomes relevant when the 
system retrieves the core from /dev/ad0s1b while rebooting after the 
crash. This is done by savecore(8). At this point /home is mounted and 
available so you should find the crash dump there.

Sascha

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