provide a generic interface to show records captured in
the dying moments. In the case of a panic the last part
of the console log is captured, but other interesting
- data can also be saved.
+ data can also be saved::
- # mount -t pstore -o kmsg_bytes=8000 - /sys/fs/pstore
+ # mount -t pstore -o kmsg_bytes=8000 - /sys/fs/pstore
- $ ls -l /sys/fs/pstore/
- total 0
- -r--r--r-- 1 root root 7896 Nov 30 15:38 dmesg-erst-1
+ $ ls -l /sys/fs/pstore/
+ total 0
+ -r--r--r-- 1 root root 7896 Nov 30 15:38 dmesg-erst-1
Different users of this interface will result in different
filename prefixes. Currently two are defined:
- "dmesg" - saved console log
- "mce" - architecture dependent data from fatal h/w error
+ - "dmesg" - saved console log
+ - "mce" - architecture dependent data from fatal h/w error
Once the information in a file has been read, removing
the file will signal to the underlying persistent storage
- device that it can reclaim the space for later re-use.
+ device that it can reclaim the space for later re-use::
- $ rm /sys/fs/pstore/dmesg-erst-1
+ $ rm /sys/fs/pstore/dmesg-erst-1
The expectation is that all files in /sys/fs/pstore/
will be saved elsewhere and erased from persistent store
backends are available, the preferred backend may be
set by passing the pstore.backend= argument to the kernel at
boot time.
-