topic Re: disk usage in Operating System - HP-UX

disk usage

yendenos — Thu, 11 Dec 2003 09:46:40 GMT

how can i tell how much space is required and on what filesystems for installing a patch.
without using swinstall -p

Re: disk usage

G. Vrijhoeven — Thu, 11 Dec 2003 09:50:11 GMT

Hi,

Read the patch description.

Gideon

Re: disk usage

Pete Randall — Thu, 11 Dec 2003 09:50:59 GMT

I think you can look at the .depot file and examine the "size" field:

size 72473

The first size field should be the total for the entire package. Subsequent sizes would be for individual components.

Pete

Re: disk usage

yendenos — Thu, 11 Dec 2003 09:53:09 GMT

The patch description file for patch PHKL_24518 only has the patch package size unless I have missed it !

John.

Re: disk usage

Helen French — Thu, 11 Dec 2003 09:58:29 GMT

Once you start your 'swinstall' screen, the analysis phase will tell you how much space is needed on which file system.

You can check this by checking the log file and if that's okay, you can proceed with your patch installation.

Re: disk usage

Uday_S_Ankolekar — Thu, 11 Dec 2003 10:03:53 GMT

While you run swinstall before installing the patch system will 'analyze' the installation. You will see how much space it's going to utilize it. If you think space is going to be less then you can stop patch installation at that point.

-USA..

Re: disk usage

yendenos — Thu, 11 Dec 2003 10:15:20 GMT

as i said in my question im looking to find the disk usage without using swinstall and not the package size, surely there must be available info somewhere !

thanks everyone for your help so far

Re: disk usage

Hazem Mahmoud_3 — Thu, 11 Dec 2003 10:22:12 GMT

I think a simple "bdf" would work, unless I misinterpreted the question.

-Hazem

Re: disk usage

Hazem Mahmoud_3 — Thu, 11 Dec 2003 10:23:16 GMT

Sorry, I misinterpreted the question:) You want to know how much space is required for a patch. I think that is usually stated in the documentation of the patch.

-Hazem

Re: disk usage

Pete Randall — Thu, 11 Dec 2003 10:26:26 GMT

John,

I really think you're going to have to examine the contents of the PHKL_24518.depot file. All the information is in there, it's just a matter of recognizing and retrieving it.

Pete

Re: disk usage

yendenos — Thu, 11 Dec 2003 11:14:36 GMT

Pete

why do you call me John ?

I have now downloaded one of the patches onto the dreaded server and untarred it. I subsequently ran the create depot script and it created a file PHNE_28760.depot ( yes I know this is not the one i started out with )
this file is not an ascii file so how do i retrieve it. Im really lookinf for a way of getting diskusage without having to put the patches onto the boxes.

will the disk usage be the same across different platforms ?

thanks

Re: disk usage

Robert-Jan Goossens — Thu, 11 Dec 2003 11:18:11 GMT

Try it wit tar.

# tar tvf PHNE_28760.depot | more

Regards,
Robert-Jan

Re: disk usage

yendenos — Thu, 11 Dec 2003 11:26:49 GMT

Robert

tar just tells you the content of the file ie which files are in the archive not the disk usage.

Re: disk usage

Bruno Ganino — Thu, 11 Dec 2003 11:28:44 GMT

info patch phkl_24518
http://www5.itrc.hp.com/service/patch/patchDetail.do?patchid=PHKL_24518&admit=552267591+1071159878041+28353475

Re: disk usage

Mister_Z — Thu, 11 Dec 2003 11:33:04 GMT

the mentioned patch modifies the file
/usr/conf/lib/libhp-ux.a(ufs_vm.o)

whose size is 10652 bytes.

Regards,

Re: disk usage

Bruno Ganino — Thu, 11 Dec 2003 11:36:41 GMT

also... patch info
http://support.openview.hp.com/patches/patch_disk.jsp

Re: disk usage

A. Clay Stephenson — Thu, 11 Dec 2003 11:38:42 GMT

Bear in mind that a few patches or installs builds files and new kernels "on the fly" so that the answer very much depends upon the particular platform. What you are asking is impossible without running swinstall -p.

Re: disk usage

Mister_Z — Thu, 11 Dec 2003 11:42:09 GMT

Bruno, I think that yendenos wants to know how the size of the fs are affected after the patch installation rather than the space needed to install it. Correct?

Re: disk usage

yendenos — Thu, 11 Dec 2003 11:50:05 GMT

I give in i shall use the swinstall preview i dont have time to go further with this but a big thanks to all who worked the call.

Re: disk usage

Bruno Ganino — Thu, 11 Dec 2003 12:14:03 GMT

Jendenos, why can not use "swinstall" ???
I am courious
Bruno