Free up space on 3850 stack

[atrevido43]

Good day everyone

I've read a bunch of posts but still am a bit confused, trying to upgrade from 16.12.4 to 16.12.5 in order to fix this bizarre PoE bug but nervous that there is not enough room on stack

#request platform software package clean

xxxxx#request platform software package clean
This operation may take several minutes...
Running command on switch 1
Cleaning up unnecessary package files
No path specified, will use booted path flash:packages.conf

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SUCCESS: No extra package or provisioning files found on media. Nothing to clean.

Can I get rid of these crashinfo files?  See attached text file for show file systems

[Reza Sharifi]

Hi,

You have about 70Mb space in one switch and about 100Mb in the other switch. I would recommend copying the crash files to a USB drive before deleting them. Also, you have a  lot of "gz" files that you may not need or also be copied into a USB flash drive before deleting and making more space.

20161031-232614.gz

 HTH

[atrevido43]

What are these .qz files?  they seem old.  Why would I need to save them?

[Reza Sharifi]

With .qz files, it appears that you are backing up the config to the flash. You really don't need all of them. Maybe remove most but keep one or 2 of the latest.

HTH

[Leo Laohoo · Accepted solution]

The file(s) in the following directories can be removed: 

delete /f /r crashinfo-X: 
delete /f /r flash-X:core

Do not forget to make sure the "packages.conf" file is pointing to the new packages using the command: 

more flash-X:packages.conf | begin for NOVA

Make sure to run the same command on every switch stack member. 

Make sure the boot-variable string is pointing to the "packages.conf": 

sh boot | i BOOT variable

[atrevido43]

I was able to use 

delete /f /r creasahinfo-1:

delete /f /r creasahinfo-2:

delete /f /r creasahinfo-3:

delete /f /r creasahinfo-4:

and cleared up tons of space, will rerun upgrade tonight.