Purpose
Perform
platform (hardware and firmware) dump-related actions.
Description
The pdump command
helps the operating system save firmware and hardware related dumps.
This command also provides an estimate of the disk space required
for storing these dumps. Note that platform and scan dumps are saved
in order to capture the state of the firmware and the hardware for
analysis.
Flags
| -disable |
Disables platform dumps. |
| -enable |
Enables platform dumps. |
| -ls |
Lists the current configuration of platform
dump. |
| -reserve fstype |
Reserves enough disk space on the system for
platform dumps. The -enable option will create a file system
(if one does not exist) exclusively for platform dumps. If a file
system already exists and the size is not enough, the file system
size will be increased. The fstype must be a valid file system
type. If the file system already exists, any may be specified. |
| -size |
Provides an estimate of disk space required
to save the platform dumps when they occur. This option will interact
with the firmware to provide this estimate. It is expected that, based
on this space information, the user will have enough disk space allocated
for platform dumps to be saved. The value output will be the required
size in bytes. |
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