Solaris 10 - / partition almost full - deleting obsoleted patches

I installed Solaris 10 on a Sun Blade last month, and have used Sun Update Manager to patch my system regularly. Now, my / partition is 92% full:
Filesystem kbytes used avail capacity Mounted on
/dev/dsk/c0t0d0s0 6196110 5612522 521627 92% /
/devices 0 0 0 0% /devices
ctfs 0 0 0 0% /system/contract
proc 0 0 0 0% /proc
mnttab 0 0 0 0% /etc/mnttab
swap 2305496 1064 2304432 1% /etc/svc/volatile
objfs 0 0 0 0% /system/object
fd 0 0 0 0% /dev/fd
swap 2305504 1072 2304432 1% /tmp
swap 2304480 48 2304432 1% /var/run
/dev/dsk/c0t2d0s7 38476820 12548276 25543776 33% /data1
/dev/dsk/c0t0d0s3 28420342 1772874 26363265 7% /space
/dev/dsk/c0t0d0s7 3099342 769885 2267471 26% /export/home
Does anyone know if/how I can remove old, obsoleted patch versions to free up some space? Is it recommended to use patchrm -f to remove old patch versions? I am hoping that I can avoid re-installing Solaris 10 and, in doing so, make my / partition larger.
Also, I have noticed that Sun Update Manager (SUM) cannot install all available patches. Some patches are evidently signed, and will not install. The only way I have been able to install them is to separately download the unsigned version of the patch and use patchadd -Gd. Is this normal, or am I doing something wrong, or can I somehow reconfigure SUM to change this behavior?

Command patchrm will remove patch and restore old version of patched files. Saved files are stored in /var/sadm/pkg/"PKG_NAME"/save/"PATCH_NO". You can remove these files, but you will not able to restore these files with patchrm. I found this example somewhere in the internet. It removes all saved patches older then 365 days.
Example:
find /var/sadm/pkg/*/save/??????-?? -type d -mtime +365 -prune | xargs rm -r
I use smpatch (simple "smpatch update" command) utility, but i think it is probably same as SUM. smpatch downloads patches to /var/sadm/spool. When patches are successfully installed then they are deleted from this directory otherwise they remain there. They are downloaded as jar archives /var/sadm/spool/??????-??.jar and then unpacked into var/sadm/spool/??????-??.jar.dir. When you delete these files/directories, smpatch will just have to download them again when it is necessary. Log files can be found in /var/sadm/patch/??????-??.
I have only problems with patches for Sun Studio. I must patchadd -G them manually from /var/sadm/spool. Sometime smpatch wants to install absurd patches but then installing simply failed.
I must say, that if you delete files, you do it at your own risk!!!

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