topic Re: maintain /opt in Operating System - HP-UX

maintain /opt

Eli Daniel — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 18:33:14 GMT

how to maintain the directory / opt

I have to delete some files because the filesystem is occupying 98%

no space in vg00

which files to delete?

Re: maintain /opt

Pete Randall — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 18:46:31 GMT

Which ones have you got?

Really, it's pretty hard for us to answer that question without a lot of knowledge about your system, what it's used for, how it's set up, etc., etc. Without that sort of knowledge we really can't offer anything more than wild guesses.

Pete

Re: maintain /opt

James R. Ferguson — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 18:47:27 GMT

Hi Eli:

The '/opt' filesystem should be quite static, growing principally as optional software is added. To shrink the utilization you would need to consider 'swremove'-ing products you know you will never use.

Regards!

...JRF...

Re: maintain /opt

Eli Daniel — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 20:21:11 GMT

the file system /opt contain:

/opt/aplication1, /opt/aplication2, /opt/aplication3

Re: maintain /opt

James R. Ferguson — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 20:26:42 GMT

Hi (again):

> the file system /opt contain: /opt/aplication1, /opt/aplication2, /opt/aplication3

In that case, if these directories contain volatile data files, those files should be in '/var/opt'. If the application doesn't allow the placement of these during installation, simply create your own symlinks to '/var/opt'.

Regards!

...JRF...

Re: maintain /opt

Tim Nelson — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 20:57:51 GMT

two options: (other than to deleting files randomly that we know nothing about.)

1-add disk to vg00, extend /opt

2-move application 1,2,3 to different vg and lv.

If you have Online-JFS then #1 will not require downtime, if not then schedule some.

I recommend #2, although /opt is a great place for optional software, if the software requires alot of disk space then locate it on its own disk outside of vg00(it can still be a /opt/mountpoint. keep vg00 as small as possible for simplified DR.

Re: maintain /opt

Eli Daniel — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 21:17:05 GMT

Thanks