topic Re: remove /var in Operating System - HP-UX

remove /var

hpuxhelp — Tue, 11 Nov 2003 18:20:26 GMT

I clean up all the fileset on /var/adm/sw/save
will this cause any grief on my system...??
i didn't remove the directory /var/adm/sw/save
just the contents insdide that directory

Re: remove /var

James A. Donovan — Tue, 11 Nov 2003 18:21:51 GMT

It would make patch rollbacks problematic, but otherwaise shouldn't cause you any grief.

Re: remove /var

hpuxhelp — Tue, 11 Nov 2003 18:26:35 GMT

Is this so critical that without those file
set in there my system will crash???? or if I want to update any patches is this going to give me grief??

Re: remove /var

James A. Donovan — Tue, 11 Nov 2003 18:29:26 GMT

Nothing in that directory is "critical". You only need those files if you wanted to rollback to a previous patch.

Re: remove /var

Con O'Kelly — Tue, 11 Nov 2003 18:34:08 GMT

Hi

In case you're not aware look at using the cleanup command in future.
Example
# cleanup -c 2
(Committs all patches superseeded twice)

This is designed to cleanup the /var/adm/sw/save directory properly.

Cheers
Con

Re: remove /var

Michael Steele_2 — Tue, 11 Nov 2003 18:34:27 GMT

Its used with swremove and other rollbacks.

When disks were smaller copying /var/adm/sw/save to tape and removing it was common enough. And as long as you have it on tape it shouldn't be an issue.

But why blow it away? Are you that short of disk? Mistake? Got a make_tape_recovery backup?

Re: remove /var

hpuxhelp — Tue, 11 Nov 2003 19:25:07 GMT

it was because we are short of disk space..
but I already did it...all i am care so much right now is that it doesn't cause system to panics or to crash... due to the removeal of the contents

Re: remove /var

Michael Steele_2 — Tue, 11 Nov 2003 19:39:18 GMT

Everything under /var/adm/sw is SD-UX specific. And only problem would arise with a non-bootable kernel requiring you to swremove patches. 99% this would be recently installed. But once in awhile HP will recall a patch.

Re: remove /var

Jeff Schussele — Tue, 11 Nov 2003 19:41:02 GMT

No, it won't cause a crash or any problems in & of itself.
But you're screwed if a patch gets recalled & you have to remove it. Not gonna happen.

There are reasons to make recovery tapes - THIS is #1.

Cheers,
Jeff

Re: remove /var

Bill Hassell — Tue, 11 Nov 2003 20:31:45 GMT

Removing the files without using the cleanup command may leave the patch state of your machine undefined. Hopefully you made a backup of that directory prior to removing the files. If you are successful in adding a new patch, then you should be OK. Otherwise, you may never be able to add new software or patches using swinstall. /var is crucial to the system and should be at least 1000 to 2000 megs in size but managed regularly. If you were to remove everything in the sw directory, I know you'll never be able to run swinstall again, not sure about sw/save.

Re: remove /var

Adisuria Wangsadinata_1 — Wed, 12 Nov 2003 04:09:26 GMT

Hi there,

I refer you the document about 'How do I reclaim space in /var/adm/sw/save on an 11.0 system?' at this url for your reference to resolve your problem :

http://itrc.hp.com/cki/bin/doc.pl/screen=ckiSearchResults?mode=id&searchString=KBRC00002204

Hope the information can help you.

Best Regards,
AW