topic Re: Freeing Space for Patch Install in Operating System - HP-UX

Freeing Space for Patch Install

Adrian Sobers2 — Tue, 28 Sep 2004 09:01:58 GMT

I have an old production machine that I want to install the latest pathsets for. Problem is that the install halts at the disk-space analysis step because of insufficent space. I've mananged to free space under /var however /usr is the culprit. I need to free like 215MB before patching under /usr. Any suggestions on what could go.

It's not a production machine. Runs HP-UX 11.00 with like no patches installed since OS was loaded in what 1995 I think they said. Running Oracle 8.0.5 64-bit old production database in archivelog more and 287MB total RAM on machine. Yes it's ancient.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Attached is output from bdf command.

Re: Freeing Space for Patch Install

Geoff Wild — Tue, 28 Sep 2004 09:07:48 GMT

usr is quite small - any space left in vg00?

vgdisplay vg00 |grep PE

Typically, usr these days is like 2GB.

Rgds...Geoff

Re: Freeing Space for Patch Install

Steve Steel — Tue, 28 Sep 2004 09:08:22 GMT

Hi

do

du -s /usr/*|sort -n

Post the last 10 lines

It looks like you have to extend /usr or remove somthing

/usr/share/doc and /usr/share/man are candidates to be backed up and removed

Otherwise if you have room on other lvol move /usr/share to say /opt/share and then

ln -s /opt/share /usr/share

Steve STeel

Re: Freeing Space for Patch Install

Prashant Zanwar_4 — Tue, 28 Sep 2004 09:09:06 GMT

You can do cleanup -p -c 2 or 1.

It will get rid of supersaded patches on your system making some space for you.

Also you can see

/usr/contrib/bin/patch_check to see corrupted patches or filesets..Get rid of those also.

Hope above helps
Prashant

Re: Freeing Space for Patch Install

Pete Randall — Tue, 28 Sep 2004 09:09:10 GMT

Adrian,

Do you have any free space that you could use to expand /usr? That would probably be better than removing stuff that you might need later on.

If you can't expand, try taking a look at the contents with du:

du -sk /usr/* |sort -n

That will show you the largest directories in /usr and you can drill down into them further with additional du commands to see if you can clean anything out. Candidates that I see might by /usr/examples and /usr/old. I would suggest you back up everything before you remove it.

Pete

Re: Freeing Space for Patch Install

Adrian Sobers2 — Tue, 28 Sep 2004 09:14:13 GMT

Here is vgdisplay vg00 |grep PE

in a text file

Re: Freeing Space for Patch Install

Adrian Sobers2 — Tue, 28 Sep 2004 09:14:47 GMT

Here is du -s /usr/*|sort -n

in a text file

Re: Freeing Space for Patch Install

Sanjay_6 — Tue, 28 Sep 2004 09:15:34 GMT

Hi,

I think the best suggestion would be to increase the size of /var & /usr if you have room in vg00.

Try this link as an example on how to increase the size of /var & /usr,

http://www1.itrc.hp.com/service/cki/docDisplay.do?docLocale=en_US&docId=200000075563685

The itrc doc id is AUSRCKBRC00001468.

Hope this helps.

Regds

Re: Freeing Space for Patch Install

Geoff Wild — Tue, 28 Sep 2004 09:20:43 GMT

That's what I was afraid of - only a 4GB drive....you have no space left in vg00 to increase size of /usr. There will be no way to free up 215 MB on /usr....

cleanup patches only affects /var...

You must have 2GB of swap on vg00...

2 possible solutions:

Remove swap from vg00 and out it on another vg, then increase size of /usr.

Or, replace your system disk with a larger one - say 9 or 18 GB.

In both case, you will most likely have to do a make_tape_recovery...

Rgds...Geoff

Re: Freeing Space for Patch Install

bhavin asokan — Tue, 28 Sep 2004 09:22:56 GMT

hi,

bdf shows you have a total of 385MB in your /usr mount point.in this to free 215 MB is difficult.you should have to extend /usr partition.
take a ignite backup before activity.
check the free space in root VG by vgdisplay command.
#vgdisplay vg00

free space=total free extents*size of one extent.

if enough space is available reboot the server in single user mode.(from ISL
ISL>hpux -is

then check the /usr is unmounted.

#/sbin/lvextend -L size /dev/vg00/lvol7
#/sbin/extendfs -F vxfs /dev/vg00/rlvol7

mount it and check.(size you are giving should in MB and more than that of the existing size)
reboot the server.

regds,

Re: Freeing Space for Patch Install

Adrian Sobers2 — Tue, 28 Sep 2004 10:16:15 GMT

thanks all.