QUICK QUESTION

[Nobody's Hero]

When can you assume that it is safe to delete
files in the /var/adm/sw/save and /var/adm/sw/product directories? They are getting stuffed and I need to recover some space.

Thanks as always.

[Sanjay_6]

Hi Robert,

I don't think it is safe to delete any of those files manually. You can use the cleanup command to clean out the old patches.

Use "man cleanup" for more info.

Hope this helps.

Regds

[John Bolene]

Do a man cleanup and see if that is what you want.

You DO NOT want to delete ALL the files in those places. This is the place that a lot of software gets normally installed to.

[Tom Geudens]

Hi,
Quick answer ...
You might want to take a look at
#man cleanup
before doing something you might not want to ...

Hope this helps,
Tom Geudens

[Ian Dennison_1]

Delete using rm? Thats a negative!

Do a man on 'cleanup'. By performing a 'cleanup -c [n]' where n is the number of times a file is saved. YOu can use the '-p' option to preview, to see what space you will save.

Share and Enjoy! Ian

[Jeff Machols]

It depends how you patch. We always keep the last two patches. As long as you are comfortable with the patches or software installed go ahead. YOu could always tar and compress the files in there to get some space back, that way you could keep stuff around a little longer

[Craig Rants]

Quick answer, NO! Use the cleanup utility. If you don't have it you can download the patch.

MC,
C

[Craig Rants]

I have it down as PHCO_22044 could be superceeded by now.

MC,
C

[Frederic Sevestre]

Hi,

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

Fr??d??ric

[Wodisch]

Hello,

NEVER EVER delete something under "/var/adm/sw/products/" as this is your "IPD" (Installed Products Database) - where do think the information for "swlist" does come from?
Delete it and you are LOST!

Merry X-mas, anyway,
Wodisch

[Deshpande Prashant · Accepted solution]

HI
Instead of deleting files in /var/adm/sw/..
Use cleanup command to recover space used by patches.
#cleanup -p -c 2 will list all patches and space used by then that are super seeded twice.

#cleanup -c 2 will commit all patches superseeded twice and recover space in /var.

You also can use
#swmodify -x patch_commit=true to commit individual patch to recover space in /var/adm/sw/save dir.

Thanks.

Prashant.

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