Quality Packs & Disk Space

[Filipe_1]

Hi Forumers,

We have here several HP-UX 11.0 servers and we have to patch them as best as we can.

But... all servers have problems with disk space. For example, none of them has more than 100 Mb available in the /tmp , and the last Quality Pack has almost 350 Mb....

Anyone knows something about disk space requiriments to install those patches? We have checked the documentation and found nothing.

Thanks in advance!

Filipe.

[Biswajit Tripathy]

Run swinstall with '-p' option for preview. This will let
you know the disk space requirements (among other
things).

- Biswajit

[Anthony Lennan]

If you can't find the disk space requirements you should be able to just run the analysis phase of swinstall for the quality pack on one of your servers. You can then select the disk analysis section and see how much each of your filesystems will grow by. You don't have to proceed with the install after that.

Rgds,
Anthony

[Filipe_1]

Thanks folks, but anyone has any reference about what requirements are these?

[Bill Hassell · Accepted solution]

You can safely assume that you will need at least 500 megs of free space in /var/tmp. /tmp (although given as an example) is not the right place to store the QPK patch bundle. You do not need to store the patch bundle on a particular disk lvol--/var/tmp is the best recommendation since you should always have several hundred megs of free space in /var. If you are running short of disk space, it's time to double or triple your disk space. Disk space is extremely cheap compared to the hours you spend trying to make room for things like patch bundles.

[A. Clay Stephenson]

There is no way to tell you how much space you will need. It depends entirely upon how up to date your current patches, your platform, and what software you have installed. The only way to know is to let the swinstall do the analysis. I've even seen a few cases where the analysis indicated that there was sufficient space (barely) and the actual install failed because of lack of disk space. If analysis indicates that you are near capacity on any filesystem, it is a good idea to increase those LVOL's before doing the actual install. You may be able to recover considerable space in /var by running the cleanup command.