I am installing patch cluster on Solaris 8 servers. In one of the server, there is not enough disk space in /var. I have removed all unneeded files and still not enough space. And there is no more disk space to be allocated. All physical disks are pretty much maxed out.
I found the following when I revised the README file: OLDER VERSIONS OF PATCHES ALREADY INSTALLED: Backout of older versions of patches provided in the cluster is not required in order for the newer version to be installed. However not backing out an older rev before installing a newer rev will cause showrev -p to continue to show the older rev along with the newer rev. And, if the older rev was previously installed with the save option, the older rev will continue to occupy disk space in /var/sadm/patch even though it has been obsoleted by the new rev. The patchrm command will only allow the most recently saved objects to be restored, thus there are no serious risks associated with leaving an older rev on the system. It just may, however, avoid confusion and be more economical to first backout an older patch revision before installing a newer revision. I read the man pages for the patchrm command. If I understood correctly the syntax of patchrm I will need to back out old version individually: type the command and the patch-id of each version to be backed out. I wonder if there is a way to back out all old versions of all patches to be installed in wholesale mode. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Any comments or statements made in this transmission reflect the views of the sender and are not necessarily the views of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. _______________________________________________ Solaris-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.filibeto.org/mailman/listinfo/solaris-users
