Looks like you did :) You can safely delete them (unless you want to
investigate what caused them - in this case you will also need to locate
trace files corresponding to these core dumps, open a TAR with Oracle
Support and upload the whole thing to them so that they can dig through
them and possibly figure out what went wrong).
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"Mark Lind" <marNOkSPAMlind_at_pacbell.net> wrote in message
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> These are infrequent, but maybe were never cleaned up. Based on the
> timestamp, it's about three times a year since 1999. They were all
> the same size except the more recent ones (which is probably because
> the core dump filled up the volume).
>
> Did I just answer my own question?
>
>
> On Tue, 23 Jul 2002 15:25:02 -0700, Mark Lind
> <marNOkSPAMlind_at_pacbell.net> wrote:
>
> >My /opt volume is close to being full, and I'm looking to make some
> >room. In my survey of the drive, I noticed several directories with
> >the following names:
> >
> >/opt/ORACLE/app/oracle/product/8.0.4/dbs/core_XXXX where XXXX is some
> >4-digit or 5-digit number. Each of these directories seems to have a
> >single file named "core" that's between 36MB and 106MB.
> >
> >Are those part of Oracle, or are those core dumps I can delete?
> >
> >Please no comments about how we need to upgrade to 9i. 8-)
> >
> >Mark Lind
> >Mark
> >
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> Mark
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Received on Wed Jul 24 2002 - 03:26:18 CDT
