[OpenIndiana-discuss] safely cleanup pkg cache?

[Stephan Althaus]

On 02/21/21 09:17 AM, Andreas Wacknitz wrote:
> Am 21.02.21 um 09:10 schrieb Toomas Soome via openindiana-discuss:
>>
>>> On 21. Feb 2021, at 08:45, Tim Mooney via openindiana-discuss 
>>> <openindiana-discuss at openindiana.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> All-
>>>
>>> My space-constrained OI hipster build VM is running low on space.
>>>
>>> It looks like either pkg caching or pkg history is using quite a lot of
>>> space:
>>>
>>> $ pfexec du -ks /var/pkg/* | sort -n
>>> 0       /var/pkg/gui_cache
>>> 0       /var/pkg/lock
>>> 0       /var/pkg/modified
>>> 0       /var/pkg/ssl
>>> 6       /var/pkg/pkg5.image
>>> 955     /var/pkg/lost+found
>>> 5557    /var/pkg/history
>>> 23086   /var/pkg/license
>>> 203166  /var/pkg/cache
>>> 241106  /var/pkg/state
>>> 9271692 /var/pkg/publisher
>>>
>>> What is the correct, safe way to clean up anything from pkg that I 
>>> don't
>>> need?
>>>
>>> The closest information I've found is an article from Oracle on 
>>> "Minimize
>>> Stored Image Metadata":
>>>
>>>     https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E53394_01/html/E54739/minvarpkg.html
>>>
>>> This suggests changing the 'flush-content-cache-on-success' property
>>> to true (OI defaults to False).
>>>
>>> Is that it, or are there other (generally safe) cleanup steps that I 
>>> could
>>> take too?  Is 'pkg purge-history' a good idea?
>>>
>> do not forget to check beadm list -a / zfs list -t snapshot
>>
>> rgds,
>> toomas
>>
> I have a question regarding beadm destroy here:
> I do regularly destroy old BEs with "pfexec beadm destroy <BE name>"
> keeping only a handful BEs.
> Checking with "zfs list -t snapshot" shows that this won't destroy most
> (all?) related snapshots, eg. it typically frees only some mb.
> Thus, my rpool is filling over the time and I have to manually destroy
> zfs snapshots that belong to deleted BEs.
> Is that an intentional behavior of beadm destroy and is there something
> how I can enhance on my procedure?
>
> Regards,
> Andreas
>
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Hello!


I use

beadm destroy -s <bename>

to auto-destroy the corresponding snapshots. See "man beadm"


Greetings,

Stephan