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List:       hpux-admin
Subject:    [HPADM] SUMMARY - patch disk space
From:       c826877 () cabsav ! phoenix ! telstra ! com ! au
Date:       1997-08-29 17:18:55
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> I have a 10.20 system which has a LOT of space under /var/adm/sw/patch which
> is consumed by patch info.  I have tried running "cleanup" but it tells me
> "There were no patch backups appropriate for removal.".  Now this is consuming
> 85MB of my 200MB /var partition.  I don't mind some OS overhead on my system,
> but this is rediculous  ;-)

Most suggested to "rm -r" the stuff under /var/adm/sw/patch or run "cleanup -F".
Amounts to about the same thing as far as I can tell.  It's a new install, &
to be perfectly honest I would like to maintain the ability to backout a patch
a little bit longer.  Looks like the price to pay for that is the loss of a
significant amount of disk space.

Several respondents suggested archiving this tree & a) putting it on a FS with
more available space, or b) putting it out to tape.

Thanks to the following people for taking the time -

Ilan Green <ilang@amdocs.com>
CARRILLO Jose <carrillo@cetrel.lu>
Marvin Blackburn <mlb@netpath.net>
Stuart Abramson <stuart.abramson@worldnet.att.net>
Paul Sweeney <sweeneyp@macom.com>
Randy Groebner <rmg@haskel.tds-eagan.lmco.com>
Jens Kupferschmidt <root@hpwork22.rz.uni-leipzig.de>
Wes Kaufmann <c21@eclipse.os.dhhs.gov>

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Stephen Hearn                   UNIX System Admininstration
Telstra Phoenix Project         IBM Global Services
31/300 LaTrobe St.  Melbourne, Australia

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