[OpenIndiana-discuss] safely cleanup pkg cache?

[Andreas Wacknitz]

That doesn‘t work correctly either.

Von meinem iPhone gesendet

> Am 21.02.2021 um 21:43 schrieb Stephan Althaus <Stephan.Althaus at duedinghausen.eu>:
> 
> 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
> 
> 
> 
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