/var/crash/ files

They are crash dumps of the kernel, i.e. files that contains useful information to recover the state of the kernel when it was crashing. These files are for your kernel what core dumps are for ordinary executables. There exists an utility that can be used to analyze those files : crash

You can delete files in under /var/crash if you’re willing to lose useful information needed to debug those crashes.

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