var cleanup hp ux 11.23 itanium

[Donald Thaler]

the command du -sk | sort -rn | head -20
just returns a number ??

# du -sk | sort -rn | head -20

2678160 .

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi Donald:

> The command du -sk | sort -rn | head -20
just returns a number ??

Drop the 's' which summarizes and use:

# du -k /var|sort -krn|head -20

Regards!

...JRF...

[grshankar]

Hi,



Some Pionts to clean up /var Spaceâ ¦

1. Release space from /var:
- remove core dump:
# find /var -name core -exec rm {} \;
2. cleanup old patches
cleanup -c 2
3. The following file in /var/stm/logs/os (Keep latest.)
memlog
logN.taw.cur
ccbootlog

[Bill Hassell]

Sorry about the typo -- the actual du option should be:

du -xk /var | sort -rn | head -20

(s is just too close to the x key)

Just to explain the use of du and not find for large files: Until you examine every directory in /var, looking for large files will miss a directory with thousands of small files. The du command summarizes directories. Once you find an unusually large directory, look inside to find the contents. You can sort the contents by size:

cd /var/someLargeDirectory
ll | sort -rnk5 | head -20

[Bob E Campbell]

Nice to know that SWA is covered when we turn away for a bit, thanks guys!

I might also throw out that often the mass of the QPK bundle can be an issue. If you already have that on media then preload it into your depot and then use:

# swa get -t /depotHere -x allow_existing_depot=true

While I am a big fan of the QPK bundle you could also use just the SEC, PW, and CRIT analyzers.