Size of /opt filesystem

[Simon R Wootton]

/opt is currently running at 86% on our N4000. Ideally, I'd like this under 80%. We recently replaced predictive support with ISEE and I think this may have pushed the size up a little.

Does anyone know of log files or other non-essential files that could be removed from /opt to reduce the size ?

All help appreciated and rewarded as usual.

Simon

[Ian Dennison_1]

if you have ignite, I would create a separate file system for /opt/ignite, as it does gobble up space.

Share and Enjoy! Ian

[monasingh_1]

How much /opt do you have? If I have space on disk, I give around 1.5 to 2GB min to /opt and /usr each. If you still have the space problem(86%) then do following:

cd to /opt
then do du -sk *
It will show which dir is using what amonut of disk space. Then you can see which one you can get rid of. Opt normally does not grow as much, but du -sk * will give you some hint what has grown by how much..

hope this helps..

[monasingh_1]

Also, delete any unwanted software if you have...

[Robert-Jan Goossens]

Hi Simon,

How about a search on /opt

# find /opt -name *log* -exec ls {} \;
or
# find /opt -size +1000 -exec ls \;

Robert-Jan.

[Leif Halvarsson_2]

Hi,
There is no log files on the /opt (normaly this files is located under the /var/opt directory. But there is perhaps some software in the /opt you can remove if you not use it (for example web servers, apache or ns_fasttrack depending on the HP-UX release).

[Stefan Farrelly]

Take a look at the large dirs in /opt to see what you can move or get rid of;

cd /opt
du -sk * | sort -n

And at the bottom you will see the largest dirs, such as langtools (cant remove), perf (you could swremove perfview/measureware or move this dir elsewhere and replace with a link) or perhaps you have gcc (compiler) which you could install to a different dir.

But, what you should really do is extend /opt (if you have onlinejfs its easy) or else do it in single user mode, or identify what software is on /opt that you can swremove to free up some space.

[Sritharan]

Hi ,

This are some threads have the same issue

http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,,0x8095e7e60861d511abcd0090277a778c,00.html


http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,,0x0573dfe5920fd5118fef0090279cd0f9,00.html

http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,,0x1ae4f841489fd4118fef0090279cd0f9,00.html


Thanks & Regards
SRi

[Pete Randall]

Hi Simon,

You could try running swremove interactively, and examine all the filesets to determine if there are any un-needed ones that were loaded during a default installation.

Pete

[Trond Haugen]

If you have a Netscape server running it will have it's accedd and error logs in /opt by default.

Regards,
Trond