[parted-devel] [Parted-edge] [PATCH] Enable full memory dump

[Jim Meyering]

"Frodo Baggins" <frodo.drogo at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 9/15/07, Otavio Salvador <otavio at debian.org> wrote:
>> Jim Meyering <jim at meyering.net> writes:
>>
>> > "Frodo Baggins" <frodo.drogo at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >> Any thoughts on this?
>> >>
>> >> On 9/12/07, Frodo Baggins <frodo.drogo at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >>> From b8866155b7b9aed4c3035f3aeff8662e4c785e92 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
>> >>> From: Frodo Baggins <frodo.drogo at gmail.com>
>> >>> Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2007 00:11:37 +0530
>> >>> Subject: [PATCH] Enable full memory dump
>> >>>
>> >>> If user is root, we can remove the limit on core dump size. This may
...
> My thought was that since typically the admin/root runs parted, he can
> raise this limit. Yes, I agree that this should not be done without
> the admin's knowledge.

FYI, any user can set this via the shell's ulimit command.
E.g., in bash, type "help ulimit".