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How to kdump to a different directory?

mzpApr 14 2011 — edited Apr 19 2011

I am trying to setup kdump to dump the vmcore file to a different directory from /var/crash. When I try through system-config-kdump, it doesn't let me change the path.
From the command line, I edited #path /var/crash to another directory on the disk. However it still dumps the core to /var/crash. I also tried editing the ext3 UUID line and gave it the UUID of the disk that has the dump directory(i think it is set to /boot's UUID as default)

The OS is Oracle Linux 5.5 and the kernel is 2.6.18-194.el5

Thanks
Melzer

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