In a previous blogpost we’ve discussed some pain points regarding a whole bunch of admin partitions and the inability to upgrade regarding disk space usage, see it here: https://www.technicalfellow.com/2023/12/notes-from-the-field-citrix-netscaler-partitions-performance-and-pain/
After a support case and discussions about when to use the reporting feature of the NetScaler or not, we needed a solution to clean all those old .pdb files.
In our particular case we had the 13.1 release of the NetScaler and the option for expanding the disk wasn’t available, have to check if this is still needed or not, but our solution was the following:
* Disable the reporting feature via CLI
* Clear the .pdb files with the following command: find /var/partitions/ -type f -name “*.pdb” -exec rm -f {} \;
* Upgrade the NetScaler instance
* Enable the reporting feature again
Hope this helps!