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least one reviewer is now unhappy with, since it contains incomplete and misleading advice that is not easy to correct. The net effect of this commit and the previous commit is to simply remove all discussion of setting dumpdev to catch crash dumps prior to entering user mode.
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.\" From: @(#)swapon.8 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/5/93
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.\" $FreeBSD$
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.\"
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.Dd May 12, 1995
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.Dt DUMPON 8
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.Os FreeBSD 2.1
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.Sh NAME
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.Nm dumpon
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.Nd "specify a device for crash dumps"
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.Sh SYNOPSIS
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.Nm dumpon
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.Op Fl v
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.Ar special_file
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.Nm dumpon
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.Op Fl v
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.Ar off
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.Sh DESCRIPTION
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.Nm Dumpon
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is used to specify a device where the kernel can save a crash dump in
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the case of a panic.
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.Pp
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Calls to
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.Nm
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normally occur from the system multi-user initialization file
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.Pa /etc/rc ,
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controlled by the
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.Dq dumpdev
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variable in the boot time configuration file
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.Pa /etc/rc.conf .
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.Pp
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The size of the specified dump device must be at least 64 KB greater the
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size of physical memory.
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.Pp
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The
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.Fl v
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flag causes
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.Nm
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to be verbose about its activity.
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.Sh NOTES
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One of the system swap devices is usually chosen as the dump device, as
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swap devices are the most likely to have the required space at dump time.
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.Pp
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The
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.Nm
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program operates by setting the
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.Xr sysctl 3
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MIB variable
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.Dq kern.dumpdev
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to the device number of the designated
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.Ar special_file
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or to
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.Dv NODEV
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(meaning that no dumps are to be taken) if
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.Ar special_file
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is the text string:
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.Dq Li off .
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.Sh SEE ALSO
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.Xr sysctl 3 ,
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.Xr fstab 5 ,
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.Xr rc.conf 5 ,
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.Xr config 8 ,
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.Xr init 8 ,
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.Xr rc 8 ,
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.Xr savecore 8 ,
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.Xr swapon 8 ,
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.Xr panic 9
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.Sh FILES
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.Bl -tag -width "/dev/{wd,da}?s?b" -compact
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.It Pa /dev/{wd,da}?s?b
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standard swap areas
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.It Pa /etc/rc.conf
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boot-time system configuration
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.El
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.Sh BUGS
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Because the filesystem layer is already dead by the time a crash dump
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is taken, it is not possible to send crash dumps directly to a file.
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.Pp
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.Nm Dumpon
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currently allows only devices with minor number 1 to be used as dump
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devices.
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.Sh HISTORY
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The
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.Nm
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command appeared in
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.Fx 2.1 .
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