Patch installation error (/var/adm/sw/save)

[Navin_3]

I am installing a system patchset provided by my client. While Analyzing, i am getting the following error.

ERROR: The used disk space on filesystem "//var/adm/sw/save" is ││
│ │ estimated to increase by 269152 Kbytes. ││
│ │ This operation will exceed the absolute limit on this volume ││
│ │ by 101151 Kbytes. You should free up at least 107828 Kbytes ││
│ │ to avoid installing beyond the minimum free threshold of ││
│ │ available user disk space.

I have around 159MB free space left in /var/adm/sw/save. I think the patchset is looking for more space in the filesystem. But when i dont know how to free some space since all the files inside this filesystem are system related patches.Is there any other command to cleanup some space in the fils

[Alex Lavrov. · Accepted solution]

Hello,

this filesystem is used to keep the files before you installed the patch, so you'll be able to rollback the changes. There are two solutions:

1. Delete those files. You can do it with an utility called "cleanup", that deletes the files of patches that were superseeded. This procedure is called "commiting the patch". Read manual pages about "cleanup" to understand it better.

2. Just extend the filesystem, so you'll have enough space.

[Devender Khatana]

Hi Navin,

See for some unused files in the /var directory. What was the original size of /var. If no big unused files are found then you need to increase /var file system by atleast 250MB as 110MB more is required right now. There are different ways to do it. Check for some core files with

#find /var -name core -print

If found remove them.

Find all files of size above 1MB in /var by

#find /usr -size +1000000c -exec ll {} \;

and post output. Also post bdf output.

HTH,
Devender

[Kent Ostby]

Just to clarify the previous post from Devender, that should read /var not /usr:

find /var -size +1000000c -exec ll {} \;


Also, you can run the command to clean up older patch versions on your system as well:

cleanup -t

This will trim the SD log files and create some space.

[Navin_3]

I have ran cleaup & increased the filesytem
/var/adm/sw/save. And also i have installed the patchset successfully.

Thank you all for your support.

Thanks
Navin

[Devender Khatana]

Hi Navin,

If your problem is resolved you can assign points and close the case.

Regards,
Devender