topic Re: Removing unwanted filesets - reason is space needed in Operating System - HP-UX

Removing unwanted filesets - reason is space needed

Adrian Sobers2 — Wed, 29 Sep 2004 08:28:35 GMT

How do I remove unwanted filesets in HP-UX 11.00

Attached is the output from swlist

Re: Removing unwanted filesets - reason is space needed

RAC_1 — Wed, 29 Sep 2004 08:35:24 GMT

You can use swremove to remove the unwanted software from your system. For which FS, do you need the space?

The command cleanup will remove superceded patches from the system. Run it in preview mode and then remove the superceded patches.

Anil

Re: Removing unwanted filesets - reason is space needed

Eric Antunes — Wed, 29 Sep 2004 08:41:06 GMT

As RAC said, you can use cleanup command (see manual):

#cleanup -p -c 2

Best Regards,

Eric Antunes

Re: Removing unwanted filesets - reason is space needed

Prashant Zanwar_4 — Wed, 29 Sep 2004 08:45:16 GMT

Invoke swremove, select the unwanted filesets from the list. and proceed. Make sure these are unwanted only or you may loose functionality.

you can check for integirty of patches using /usr/contrib/bin/check_patches, it will show you corrupted patches/filesets. and you can select to remove.

cleanup -p -c 1 or 2

this can take care of supersaded patches.

Hope this helps
Prashant

Re: Removing unwanted filesets - reason is space needed

Franky_1 — Wed, 29 Sep 2004 08:48:32 GMT

Hi,

you can use "cleanup" for removing unwanted filesets

eg

cleanup -c 2 (where 2 indicates to remove 2-times superseeded patches, 3 means 3-times ... and so on)

Regards

Franky

Re: Removing unwanted filesets - reason is space needed

ramkumar — Wed, 29 Sep 2004 08:50:45 GMT

it is right . the clean up command check for the patch levels . and try to use the appropriate switches if you upgraded from 10.20 to 11 like cleanup -i

Re: Removing unwanted filesets - reason is space needed

Prashant Zanwar_4 — Wed, 29 Sep 2004 08:51:05 GMT

YOu can also use

/opt/contrib/bin/freedisk -v 2>&1 | tee filename.

Freedisk analyses which filesets are not used for so many days.

And to remove then you can do

/opt/contrib/bin/freedisk -a 90 filesets thats have not been used for last 90 days will be removed.

Its a risk basically to something like this except you are very sure of doing it

Prashant

Re: Removing unwanted filesets - reason is space needed

Adrian Sobers2 — Wed, 29 Sep 2004 08:54:43 GMT

I did that and it said no 10.X patches present

I see software like netscape, netscape6, mozilla that we don't use under /opt. This machine will be used to host Oracle 8i that's all.

Any more suggestions also I'm checking my disk and filesystem info in SAM here is what is reads:

vg00 4MB of 4092 available
vg02 1016 of 6096 available
vg03 0 of 4092 available
vg04 0 of 8680 available
vg05 96 of 17344 available
vg06 3544 of 10712 available

Attached is the output from the bdf command

Any more suggestions? I need to free as much space as possible to install some OS patches, and prepare for upgrading Oracle 8 to 8i.

Re: Removing unwanted filesets - reason is space needed

Kent Ostby — Wed, 29 Sep 2004 09:06:32 GMT

Adrian --

What filesystems are you trying to create space in ?

Doing a :

find -xdev -size +1000000c

will give you a list of files greater then 1 megabyte.

I find that removing filesets is very rarely the answer to getting more space although the cleanup command mentioned above can be useful and is safe.

Best regards,

Kent M. Ostby

Re: Removing unwanted filesets - reason is space needed

Adrian Sobers2 — Wed, 29 Sep 2004 09:15:52 GMT

I'm trying to free space under:

/var -> /dev/vg00/lvol7 (73% used)

/opt -> /dev/vg00/lvol6 (88% used)

Re: Removing unwanted filesets - reason is space needed

Prashant Zanwar_4 — Wed, 29 Sep 2004 09:49:02 GMT

swremove is best to use then. That will remove required products for you like you mentioned netscape and other.
And also cleanup -p -c 1 or 2 shall do the patch cleanup.
Under /var you can check what logs/files you can truncate/compress/delete, regular ones and otherwise too.
use du -sxk | sort -n and find out what is large and needs to be removed/truncated.

Hope this helps
Prashant

Re: Removing unwanted filesets - reason is space needed

Robert-Jan Goossens_1 — Wed, 29 Sep 2004 10:03:37 GMT

Hi,

If you have some space left on your disks inside vg00 you could extend your /var + /opt filesystems.

Otherwise you need add disks or move a filesystem ( /opt ) to an other volume group.

Check if you have free extends with

# lvdisplay -v vg00

Regards,
Robert-Jan

Re: Removing unwanted filesets - reason is space needed

H.Merijn Brand (procura — Wed, 29 Sep 2004 10:07:34 GMT

Remove internationalization. You don't need it anyway. For me that would be something like

# swlist -l product -l subproduct | perl -ne '/\b[a-zA-Z]{2}_[a-zA-Z]{2}\b/ and print'
PHCO_16489 1.0 S-Chinese zh_CN.utf8 locale src and binary
PHCO_16490 1.0 T-Chinese zh_TW.utf8 locale src and binary
PHCO_16491 1.0 Hong Kong zh_HK.utf8 locale src and binary
PHCO_16492 1.0 Japanese ja_JP.utf8 locale src and binary
PHCO_16493 1.0 Korean ko_KR.utf8 locale src and binary
PHCO_18124 1.0 French fr_CA, fr_FR.utf8 locale src, binary
PHCO_18125 1.0 German de_DE.utf8 locale src and binary
PHCO_18126 1.0 Italian it_IT.utf8 locale src and binary
PHCO_18127 1.0 Spanish es_ES.utf8 locale src and binary
PHCO_18128 1.0 Swedish sv_SE.utf8 locale src and binary

then filer out the packages you indeed want to remove, and do

# swremove PHCO_18127 PHCO_18128 ...

Enjoy, Have FUN! H.Merijn [ Who for that reason always compiles his GNU utils with --disable-nls ]

Re: Removing unwanted filesets - reason is space needed

Adrian Sobers2 — Wed, 29 Sep 2004 10:11:19 GMT

Thing is when I run swremove I do not see the products I'd like to remove listed like netscape, netscape6, mozilla etc.

Is there anything else I need to know?

Re: Removing unwanted filesets - reason is space needed

Prashant Zanwar_4 — Wed, 29 Sep 2004 10:27:39 GMT

YOu will have associated filesets, just remove those.

swlist -l product | grep -i netscape

swlist -l fileset | grep -i netscape

This will give you idea on what to remove. Then follow using swremove..

Thanks
Prashant

Re: Removing unwanted filesets - reason is space needed

Victor BERRIDGE — Wed, 29 Sep 2004 10:38:55 GMT

Hi Adrian

What disks do you have and why so many groups?
It may seem a silly question: What requirement are you trying to satisfy by purging /var /opt?
Because they seem already quite minimalist compared to standard HPUX11 installs
So if you are short of space its not trying to recuperate in vg00 that will solve your problem but more in reconfiguring you existing other vgs and in that Im sure people her have plenty of suggestions...

My 2 cents

All the best
Victor

Re: Removing unwanted filesets - reason is space needed

Adrian Sobers2 — Wed, 29 Sep 2004 10:41:26 GMT

Thanks

swlist -l fileset | grep -i "string"

does it for me. I'll do some removing then see how that goes in terms of freeing space.

Re: Removing unwanted filesets - reason is space needed

Adrian Sobers2 — Wed, 29 Sep 2004 13:54:10 GMT

Victor,

I inherited this system. It is now out of production and I'm trying to prepare it for an Oracle 8 > 8i upgrade.

The confiugration of groups and volume groups I had nothing to do with. Just trying to free space on this machine to install the latest Quality Pack from HP.

Re: Removing unwanted filesets - reason is space needed

Adrian Sobers2 — Wed, 29 Sep 2004 14:20:43 GMT

so should I try to extend my other volume groups where possible?

this will require a reboot I'm assuming?

Re: Removing unwanted filesets - reason is space needed

Robert-Jan Goossens_1 — Wed, 29 Sep 2004 14:24:50 GMT

Yes, correct.

You will need a reboot to extend /var filesystem and probably the same for /opt filesytem.

RJ