Is it safe to remove patches in /var/adm/save, if is, how?

[Hanry Zhou]

I used cleanup -c 1, 2, and 3, but could not safely remove patches /under /var/adm/save.
thanks,

[Steven E. Protter]

No, it is not save to manually delete patches from /var/adm/save

If the cleanup command can't do it, you may need to extend the /var filesystem.

That assumes the reason you are looking at this is disk space issues.

SEP

[Sridhar Bhaskarla]

Hi Hanry,

If you dont' get space with 'cleanup -c 1' option, then you have no choice except to clean other stuff in /var filesystem or increase it. Do not remove the files under that directory. If you need to backout any patches in future, you will not be able to do so if you remove them.

-Sri

[Sanjay_6]

Hi Hanry,

"cleanup" command is the only way to reclaim the space under /var/adm/sw.

http://www2.itrc.hp.com/service/cki/docDisplay.do?docLocale=en_US&docId=200000065680035

The doc id is KBRC00002204.

Manually removing directories under /var/adm/sw/save would create a problem for you if you want to rollback.

how bid is your /var/adm/sw. is it under /var, if so how big is your /var. Maybe you can reclaim space elsewhere and leave /var/adm/sw as it is. Once /var/adm/sw is messed up, you'll have lot more trouble than it is worth.

Hope this helps.

Regds

[Rick Garland]

DO NOT manually remove patch files from the /var/adm/sw/save. You will cause yourself grief down the line. Use the cleanup command.

Other option - increasing /var is one. If unable to do that, you can take some stuff from /var and make it its own filesystem/mount point. Example, /var/adm/crash can be put into another VG and you can create a filesystem (LV) and create the mount point.

Check other files such as the syslog and maillog to see if they can be truncated.

To find the biggest space offender
du /var -x -ka | sort -nr | more
Provides a list of files in size ascending order.

[Cheryl Griffin]

Committing the patches will allow you to reclaim the space.

This guide may be old, but the explanation of how committing patches affects the system still holds true.
http://docs.hp.com/hpux/pdf/5967-3577.pdf

[Geoff Wild]

cleanup -c 2

cleanup - HP-UX 11.11 patch cleanup utility

SYNOPSIS
cleanup [-n|-p] -c
cleanup [-n|-p] -d [-o 10|11] [-e true|false]
cleanup [-n|-p] -i
cleanup [-n|-p] -s

DESCRIPTION
The cleanup command provides functions useful when dealing with HP-UX
patches on HP-UX 11.11.

The cleanup command logs all information to /var/adm/cleanup.log.

Rgds...Geoff