Keith:
While I do not claim to be Mr. Solaris, I think that you'll find that
/var/sadm/pkg can get to be pretty big and grows steadily over time ....
particularly if you are diligent about applying patches on a regular
basis. Not only does have lots of space consumed with the packages
themselves, but there is also a lot of disk usage consumed by a variety
of undo.Z and obsolete.Z files that are required if/when you need to
back out anything.
I don't know if there is a general consensus, but if you DO eliminate
the undo.Z and obsolete.Z files, it precludes you from backing out
patches if you ever need to do that. I decided that rather than take
that risk, I'd use a zfs mount on a RAID to offload /var/sadm/pkg from
my main system partitions. On my Solaris 10 machines (X4100 M2),
/var/sadm/pkg has swelled to something like 9.5 - 10 GB.
I hope to learn something as more capable folks chime in on this topic.
Thanks,
John
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