var/adm/sw/save and diskspace

[Joe Profaizer]

Trying to clean up disk space and have about 500MB in var/adm/sw/save. Are these files necessary? If not, can I delete them?

..Joe

[A. Clay Stephenson]

Very bad idea!!!

Use the cleanup command. man cleanup.

It will properly do the work for you.

Clay

[boley janowski]

you have some logs in there that you will want to maintain to some extent, but you can clean up those logs some.

[Patrick Wallek]

Do NOT manually delete an files in /var/adm/sw/????? directories. For cleaning up disk space in /var/adm/sw check out the cleanup utility.

A patch is required to install cleanup on 11 and I don't remember the patch number right offhand.

[Vincenzo Restuccia]

See http://www.dutchworks.nl/htbin/hpsysadmin?h=3&dn=60495&q=cleanup%20%20var%2fadm%2fsw%2fsave&fh

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi Joe:

The maintenance of files and directories in /var/adm/sw/ is best left to the 'cleanup' utility.

/var/adm/sw/save/ holds prior copies of all
files and objects modified during a 'swinstall'. This allows patches to be rolled-out if necessary.

Use 'cleanup' to properly recover space and committ patches:

# cleanup -c [number_of_time_superseded]

For instance, 'cleanup -c 1' will display all patches that have been superseded at least one time and then prompt for removal of their rollback information thereby recovering disk space.

See the man pages for 'cleanup' for more information.

...JRF...

[Patrick Wallek]

Check out this patch: http://us-support2.external.hp.com/wpsl/bin/doc.pl/screen=wpslDisplayPatch/sid=3ddd6fe91a924a3ae4?PACH_NAM=PHCO_22044&HW=s800&OS=11.00

Download and install this on 11 and you will then have the 'cleanup' command which will help you immensely.

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi again:

The 'cleanup' utility can be added/updated on 10.X with patch PHCO_20824.

For 11.0, patch PHCO_22044 is applicable.

...JRF...