Patch Loading

[Imraan Abdul]

Hi Forum....

I am currently running HP-UX Server's with a little amount of Space - Support plus patch loading takes up a lot of space - Is there a way of loading the quaterely Support patches so as to minimise the Disk Space usage - I have heard of committing patches - How does one do this - HP-UX 11.00.

Thanks

[Frederic Sevestre]

Hi,
Use
# cleanup -c
(if you have HPUX 11.0 and -c option is not available install PHCO_24347) - it will remove all patches that were superseded at least times

To commit a list of patch you can use a file :
# swmodify -x patch_commit=true -f
where file contains the list of the patches you want to commit :
PHxx_xxxxx.*

Before doing this make sure you won't have to uninstall patches.

Have look there :

http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,,0x89edc6af36b7d5118ff10090279cd0f9,00.html

http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,,0x5b24cbaac6dcd5118ff40090279cd0f9,00.html

Fr??d??ric

[fg_1]

Imraan

We used the cleanup utility and gained a significant amt of disk space back in /var.

Cleanup -c 1

When used this will give you a list of patches that have been superseeded at least once on your system. Average cleanup from a regularly patched system will be between 250MB - 500MB.

This is good since then you can do a resizing of /var if you want to and then reallocate that gained space to other areas of vg00 that require it.

I would suggest you do a make_recovery tape prior to executing this. Nothing like being cautious in this game.

Good Luck.

[Craig Rants]

Cleanup is now the preffered tool, however there is a no save option when doing your swinstall, the catch with that one is that you can't back out if the patch is recalled or breaks something else.

The syntax would be -x patch_save_files=false

HH,
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