Deleting patches from /var/adm/sw/save

[Ramprasath_1]

Hi all,

Pls suggest me whether i can delete patches under /var/adm/sw/save. It is occupying lot of space. Old patches and superseeded patches for the same is stored here. I want to know if i delete the old patch, will it affect? What steps need to be carry out?

Thanks in advance
Ramprasath G

[Wouter Jagers · Accepted solution]

Hi there,

Check out the 'cleanup' command, it is designed to commit patches which have been superseded a number of times.

You can manually commit paches using the option '-x patch_commit=true' to swmodify.

Hope that helps.

Cheers,
Wout

[AwadheshPandey]

http://www.faqs.org/faqs/hp/hpux-faq/section-161.html

Regards,

Awadhesh

[Torsten.]

Never delete anything in /var/adm/sw!

This will corrupt your software database.

See "man cleanup" instead.

[Geoff Wild]

cleanup -c 1

or cleanup -c 2

man cleanup for more valuable info :)

Rgds...Geoff

[Tim Nelson]

As mentioned cleanup does a great job managing this. I always run after a patch load to cleanup -2 revs.

I have also successfully used a separate filesystem for this in the past.

[HGN]

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HGN

[Bob E Campbell]

Anytime you are about to commit old patches or install new ones I strongly recommend that you create an IUX recovery image. There is no such things as too many ways to remove a committed patch...

If you have spindles (or SAN) handy, a DRD clone would work as well. I just love the warm fuzzy of a recovery tape in a different building though.

Bob

[whiteknight]

Ram,

cleanup Command
The cleanup utility is used ...
â ¢ to remove any patches for earlier releases from the Installed Product Database (IPD) after updating to a newer version of HP-UX.
â ¢ to commit patches across the entire system, i.e to remove patch rollbacks.
â ¢ to remove patches from a software depot if they have been superseded by patches also available in the same depot.
cleanup logs all information to /var/adm/cleanup.log.
Refer to the cleanup manual page for details.

example: cleanup -c 2

WK

[yulianto piyut]

be carefull to delete patches under /var/adm/sw/save. Patches have been deleted can't be uninstall.
the command to delete old patches that superseded by other pathces is "cleanup". do man cleanup.
# cleanup -c 1 or
# cleanup -c 2
you will be verify what patches that will be deleted.

-yut-