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When Linux Crashes, Where will be the dump file?

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I want to see why my linux system got crashed,
Can anyone please tell where will be the dump file/ How to debug it?

posted Jul 13, 2016 by Chirag Gangdev

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The default crash directory is /var/crash. You can change the path to anything you want, provided there's enough space on the target device.

You can change this path either using GUI tools or manually editing the Kdump configuration file:
/etc/sysconfig/kdump on openSUSE
/etc/kdump.conf on CentOS (RedHat)

answer Jul 13, 2016 by Salil Agrawal
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