topic Re: /var is 85%, need to bring it to 70% in Operating System - HP-UX

/var is 85%, need to bring it to 70%, please help me.

redhat7012 — Sat, 30 Jun 2012 05:06:49 GMT

Hi,

/var is 85% reached and need to bring it to 70% to 75%.

Please help me.

Regards,

Aparna.

Re: /var is 85%, need to bring it to 70%

Dennis Handly — Sun, 01 Jul 2012 05:29:14 GMT

You need to find large directories under /var/.

Do you have anything in /var/adm/crash/?

You could clean up and commit old patches, with cleanup(1m).

These are in: /var/adm/sw/save/

You can also search the forum for similar requests about /var/ being full:

http://h30499.www3.hp.com/t5/System-Administration/var-Issue/m-p/5441675/

http://h30499.www3.hp.com/t5/System-Administration/VAR-mount-point-is-utilized-85/m-p/4824073/

http://h30499.www3.hp.com/t5/System-Administration/var-space-incress-steps/m-p/5289855/

http://h30499.www3.hp.com/t5/System-Administration/var-directory-is-full/m-p/5438015/

http://h30499.www3.hp.com/t5/General/var-grow-up-irregular/m-p/4058941/

Or consult the tag cloud:

http://h30499.www3.hp.com/t5/tag/cleanup/tg-p/category-id/itrc-117

Re: /var is 85%, need to bring it to 70%, please help me.

redhat7012 — Sat, 30 Jun 2012 07:31:27 GMT

I have to zip the log files and nullify the original file.

How to do this in HP-UX ?

What are the commands to use this in HP Unix ?

/var/adm/cron and /var/adm/syslog files need to be zipped and nullify the original one.

How to do this ?

Please help me with your comands.....

Re: /var is 85%, need to bring it to 70%, please help me.

Bill Hassell — Sat, 30 Jun 2012 23:02:56 GMT

>> /var/adm/cron and /var/adm/syslog files need to be zipped and nullify the original one.

/var/adm/cron and /var/adm/syslog are not files, they are directories.

In /var/adm/cron, there are log files that can be reduced, for example:

cd /var/adm/cron

cp log log.old

> log

gzip log.old

Similarly, for syslog:

cd /var/adm/syslog

cp syslog.old syslog.log.old

> syslog.log

gzip syslog.log.old

However, it is really important to look for big directories first, not big files. Use this command:

du -kx | sort -rn | head -20

Then post the result. You may have directories that have thousands of small files that need to be removed, so looking for large files will miss these directories.

Re: /var is 85%, need to bring it to 70%

Dennis Handly — Sun, 01 Jul 2012 05:28:55 GMT

>/var/adm/cron/ and /var/adm/syslog/ files need to be zipped and nullify the original one

Are these logs there really that large?

You're looking to remove ~700 Mb.

Re: /var is 85%, need to bring it to 70%, please help me.

redhat7012 — Sun, 01 Jul 2012 04:27:10 GMT

Hi,

Thank you for your time and attention.

Filesystem kbytes used avail %used Mounted on
/dev/vg00/lvol8 4718592 4001120 711928 85% /var

# du -akx /var | sort -nr | more

3987208 /var
2436008 /var/stm
2419056 /var/stm/logs
2418128 /var/stm/logs/os
1077600 /var/adm
985080 /var/adm/sw
823696 /var/adm/sw/save
333160 /var/opt
141480 /var/opt/OV
141168 /var/adm/sw/products
136560 /var/opt/OV/tmp
136512 /var/opt/OV/tmp/OpC
119200 /var/opt/OV/tmp/OpC/msgagtq
68024   /var/opt/wbem
67136   /var/tmp
66344   /var/adm/cron
63680   /var/adm/cron/log
58712   /var/adm/sw/save/PHCO_35291
58704   /var/adm/sw/save/PHSS_33944
57608   /var/adm/sw/save/PHCO_35291/VXVM-RUN
55976   /var/opt/sfmdb/pgsql
55976   /var/opt/sfmdb
55392   /var/opt/perf
53048   /var/opt/perf/datafiles
38040   /var/tmp/EMCPower.HPUX.5.1.0.GA.b160.tar
34208   /var/adm/sw/save/PHSS_32977
33592   /var/opt/wbem/repository
32768   /var/opt/sfmdb/pgsql/pg_xlog
32192   /var/adm/sw/save/PHSS_32976
31392   /var/adm/sw/save/PHSS_36004
30240   /var/adm/sw/save/PHSS_26946
29120   /var/mail
28464   /var/adm/sw/save/PHSS_28386
26184   /var/opt/wbem/repository/root#cimv2
25792   /var/adm/sw/save/PHCO_35291/VXVM-RUN/etc/vx
25792   /var/adm/sw/save/PHCO_35291/VXVM-RUN/etc
25616   /var/opt/wbem/repository/root#cimv2/classes
24456   /var/adm/sw/save/PHSS_32223
24384   /var/adm/sw/save/PHCO_35291/VXVM-RUN/usr
23896   /var/adm/sw/save/PHSS_27367
23816   /var/adm/sw/save/PHCO_35743
23800   /var/adm/sw/save/PHCO_29495
23480   /var/adm/sw/save/PHSS_33944/LANG-64ALIB/usr/lib/pa20_64

Could you please assisst me now, how to bring the /var % to 70 ?

The above directories used space is displayed .

Please help me with your answers.

Regards,

Aparna.

Re: /var is 85%, need to bring it to 70%

Dennis Handly — Sun, 01 Jul 2012 05:28:34 GMT

2418128 /var/stm/logs/os

You should clean the logs here.

> 823696 /var/adm/sw/save

You should use cleanup(1m) to get right of superseded patches.

Re: /var is 85%, need to bring it to 70%

redhat7012 — Sun, 01 Jul 2012 05:48:13 GMT

Hi,

Can you please give me the commands to clean up this directory ?

Won't be any impact on the server if I clean up the logs in this directory /var/adm/sw/save ?

Please give me the commands,plz...so that in future if same situation occurs, it will be helpfull for me to apply same commands.

Re: /var is 85%, need to bring it to 70%

Dennis Handly — Sun, 01 Jul 2012 05:57:45 GMT

>Can you please give me the commands to clean up this directory?

For /var/stm/logs/os/, just remove all but the latest.

>Won't be any impact on the server if I clean up the logs in this directory /var/adm/sw/save?

There are no logs, just backup of superseded patches.

Have you looked at the links above about cleanup(1m) and the man page?

cleanup -c 2

Re: /var is 85%, need to bring it to 70%

redhat7012 — Sun, 01 Jul 2012 09:54:17 GMT

Hi,

These are the pacthes that are superseded .

# /var/adm/sw/save->cleanup -p -c 3

The following patches superseded at least 3 time(s) can be committed:

Superseded # Times Superseded Disk Space in /var/adm/sw/save Superseded By
========== ================== ============================== =============
PHCO_27018           3                   188416 bytes             PHCO_33142
PHCO_29029           3                 23543808 bytes             PHCO_29495
PHKL_29047           3                   704512 bytes             PHKL_32090
PHSS_29183           3                 13189120 bytes             PHSS_32976

Now,please assist me which patches to be removed and How?

Please help me with your commands.

Re: /var is 85%, need to bring it to 70%

Dennis Handly — Mon, 02 Jul 2012 05:18:50 GMT

>These are the patches that are superseded.

>cleanup -p -c 3

Remove the -p and the patch save area for these patches will be removed.

You probably also want to see how much space you save with "-p -c 2".

Re: /var is 85%, need to bring it to 70%

Gerhard Klein — Mon, 02 Jul 2012 11:54:59 GMT

You can prevent swinstall to save patched files by adding the line

patch_save_files = false

to file /var/adm/sw/defaults

Regards

Gerhard

Re: /var is 85%, need to bring it to 70%

Dennis Handly — Mon, 02 Jul 2012 19:53:03 GMT

>You can prevent swinstall to save patched files by adding the line

You do NOT want to do this. Unless you regularly take ignite backups or have tested the patches on another machine for some time.

Better to use cleanup after patching.

Re: /var is 85%, need to bring it to 70%, please help me.

praju — Tue, 03 Jul 2012 04:57:26 GMT

Hi Aparna,

Simply you can use below command and find out what are the files/dir using more space.(If its log file pls take backup and nullify)

#find /var -xdev -type f -size +1024 -exec ll {} \; | awk '{print $9, $5}' | sort -rn +1 | awk '{print $1, $2/1024/1024 "MB"}' | more

Pr@ju!