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

remove files /var

Miguel Carabano_1 — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 15:51:44 GMT

Hi team,

I need release space, in fs /var

I can remove files on /var/adm/sw/patch

???

Thanks

Re: remove files /var

Court Campbell — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 15:58:10 GMT

from http://www.hpworks.org.uk/newsletter/articles/sd/

It is not safe to remove these entries in /var/adm/sw/patch unless you have run cleanup. Removing a directory in this location, could prevent you from backing out a patch that is currently loaded on the system.

Re: remove files /var

Robert-Jan Goossens_1 — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 15:59:36 GMT

Hi Miguel,

You can use the cleanup utility.

below command will commit any patches superseded once. They will no longer be removeable.

preview
# cleanup -p -c 1

# cleanup -c 1

Regards,
Robert-Jan

Re: remove files /var

Court Campbell — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 15:59:41 GMT

also look at:

http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=81631

Re: remove files /var

James R. Ferguson — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 16:26:19 GMT

Hi:

Absolutely do *not* manually remove or manipulate files in '/var/adm/sw'. This directory's contents represent the Installed Product Database in which the software distributer tools ('swinstall', etc.) operate.

If you corrupt or remove files in this directory, you can end up with a system that can never be patched again!

To regain space in '/var' use the 'cleanup' command as noted. See its manpages for more information.

Regards!

...JRF...

Re: remove files /var

Bob E Campbell — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 18:46:32 GMT

The patch directory is used only for HP-UX 10.X releases. The best option in 10.X systems is the cleanup script which is found within PHCO_20824.

This directory holds all of the files needed to restore the system when a patch is removed. When this backup data is deleted the patch is "committed" and cannot be removed. This will not harm the running system, but could cause great pain if a patch needs to be removed in the future.

If your system has been updated to 11.0 or later, this full directory is no longer of value. As of 11.0 the SD tools manage patches directly. Any manual changes to the save or save_custom directories on 11.X releases would be corrupting the IPD and could lead to a "bad day". In 10.X the patch directory (and patches in general) where a little trick we played on SD. Technically, the patch directory is near but outside of the IPD itself.

Re: remove files /var

James George_1 — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 19:58:41 GMT

Hi

You can do couple of things here ..

1. Trim your /var/adm/syslog/syslog.log file if its big.

2. trim /var/adm/syslog/mail.log file if its big .

3. If you /var/adm/crash is not a seperate File system , you can remove any crash files , if its there .

4. # cd /var
# du -sk * | sort -n and see what is taking more space and see if its something you can zip or remove.

5. Its beter not to remove anything from the /var/adm/sw !!

6. You can also remove the old files from /var/tombstones/tsXX files.

Rgds / James

Re: remove files /var

Miguel Carabano_1 — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 13:25:31 GMT

Thanks Team!