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/var file system

rajesh73 — Thu, 02 Oct 2014 09:32:28 GMT

Hi,

Please answer below question.

1./var file system full 95% , how to delete unwanted files

2.why every patch installation /var mount point some save patch file ocupied

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Re: /var file system

rajesh73 — Wed, 01 Oct 2014 22:52:07 GMT

what is cleanup command

Re: /var file system

Dennis Handly — Thu, 02 Oct 2014 07:16:07 GMT

>1. /var file system full 95%, how to delete unwanted files

You first have to find them. /var/tmp/ is fair game to just remove old files.

Use cleanup(1m) for /var/adm/sw/.

There are many topics on how to find directories with large number of files.

Search for: file system full

>2. why every patch installation /var mount point some save patch file ocupied

In case you want to remove patches, swinstall has to save the previous patches so swremove can put back the older patch.

>what is cleanup command

See cleanup(1m). You can use this command to remove superseded patches. You can select preview (-p) and you can also limit the number (-c N) of copies.

Re: /var file system

Milos_Lucic — Thu, 02 Oct 2014 13:37:09 GMT

Hi,

first go to var with cd /var then

Use command du -x | sort -rn | head -30 to see what file occupies disk the most

Re: /var file system

Milos_Lucic — Thu, 02 Oct 2014 13:40:51 GMT

After that remove files also use manual pages for cleanup -i command to remove unnecessery patch files or else

Re: /var file system

rajesh73 — Thu, 02 Oct 2014 21:17:30 GMT

cleanup -i command remove any os files, please find teh /var file system usage details.

7746936 /var
6632544 /var/adm
6093784 /var/adm/sw
5895304 /var/adm/sw/save
735624 /var/opt
456464 /var/adm/syslog
395928 /var/adm/sw/save/PHSS_43032
390344 /var/adm/sw/save/PHSS_43656
362944 /var/opt/ignite
321592 /var/opt/psb
314856 /var/opt/ignite/clients
303736 /var/opt/psb/db/pgsql
303736 /var/opt/psb/db
295360 /var/adm/sw/save/PHSS_43890
293416 /var/adm/sw/save/PHSS_43637
275456 /var/adm/sw/save/PHSS_43314
269792 /var/adm/sw/save/PHSS_43021
268712 /var/adm/sw/save/PHSS_43890/OMNI-CF-P/opt/omni/databases/vendor/omnicf
268712 /var/adm/sw/save/PHSS_43890/OMNI-CF-P/opt/omni/databases/vendor
268712 /var/adm/sw/save/PHSS_43890/OMNI-CF-P/opt/omni/databases
268712 /var/adm/sw/save/PHSS_43890/OMNI-CF-P/opt/omni
268712 /var/adm/sw/save/PHSS_43890/OMNI-CF-P/opt
268712 /var/adm/sw/save/PHSS_43890/OMNI-CF-P
267320 /var/adm/sw/save/PHSS_43637/OMNI-CF-P/opt/omni/databases/vendor/omnicf
267320 /var/adm/sw/save/PHSS_43637/OMNI-CF-P/opt/omni/databases/vendor
267320 /var/adm/sw/save/PHSS_43637/OMNI-CF-P/opt/omni/databases
267320 /var/adm/sw/save/PHSS_43637/OMNI-CF-P/opt/omni
267320 /var/adm/sw/save/PHSS_43637/OMNI-CF-P/opt
267320 /var/adm/sw/save/PHSS_43637/OMNI-CF-P
249480 /var/adm/sw/save/PHSS_43314/OMNI-CF-P/opt/omni/databases/vendor/omnicf
249480 /var/adm/sw/save/PHSS_43314/OMNI-CF-P/opt/omni/databases/vendor
249480 /var/adm/sw/save/PHSS_43314/OMNI-CF-P/opt/omni/databases
249480 /var/adm/sw/save/PHSS_43314/OMNI-CF-P/opt/omni
249480 /var/adm/sw/save/PHSS_43314/OMNI-CF-P/opt
249480 /var/adm/sw/save/PHSS_43314/OMNI-CF-P
243992 /var/adm/sw/save/PHSS_43021/OMNI-CF-P/opt/omni/databases/vendor/omnicf
243992 /var/adm/sw/save/PHSS_43021/OMNI-CF-P/opt/omni/databases/vendor
243992 /var/adm/sw/save/PHSS_43021/OMNI-CF-P/opt/omni/databases
243992 /var/adm/sw/save/PHSS_43021/OMNI-CF-P/opt/omni
243992 /var/adm/sw/save/PHSS_43021/OMNI-CF-P/opt
243992 /var/adm/sw/save/PHSS_43021/OMNI-CF-P
235248 /var/opt/psb/db/pgsql/base
220592 /var/adm/sw/save/PHSS_43889/OMNI-CS
220592 /var/adm/sw/save/PHSS_43889
220584 /var/adm/sw/save/PHSS_43889/OMNI-CS/opt/omni
220584 /var/adm/sw/save/PHSS_43889/OMNI-CS/opt
217480 /var/adm/sw/save/PHSS_43636/OMNI-CS

Re: /var file system

Patrick Wallek — Thu, 02 Oct 2014 21:48:59 GMT

Your /var/adm/sw/save directory, which is where patch information is saved, is consuming almost 6 GB. Using the cleanup command will likely free up some space for you.

If you are nervous about using the command and removing the files, then make sure you have a backup of the /var/adm/sw directory before proceeding.

>>cleanup -i command remove any os files,

No. The cleanup command will ONLY remove patches that have been superseded.

Try running this command:

# cleanup -p -c 2

This will show you how much space will be freed by committing patches that have been superseded 2 times. If you want to see how much space will be saved by committing patches superseded only 1 time, then do:

# cleanup -p -c 2

If you want to recover the space, then just remove the '-p' (preview) option from the command.

Re: /var file system

Emil Velez_2 — Tue, 07 Oct 2014 19:47:21 GMT

why not just extend /var if you have additional space in vg00 ?

DOesnt the system have online jfs ?