Comment 3 for bug 1790205
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| Benjamin Bach (benjaoming) wrote Re: systemd journals take up too much space, aren't vacuumed automatically | #3 |
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A month before the release of 18.04, a change was released to make systemd journals persistent, but the setting SystemMaxUse was left unset in /etc/systemd/
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The bug's regression analysis seems wrong, as it states: "The journald daemon has limits set for logs, meaning they will be rotated and discarded and should not cause out of disk-space errors."
It also seems likely that no testers of 18.04 would discover this issue, since it requires running out of disk space after having accumulated large systemd journals over time.
The documentation is here:
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SystemKeepFree could be set, since it overrides the other values listed when the disk is running out of space. But I'm unsure, because if running out of disk space means that all the logs are silently truncated, then that is also a dangerous consequence on for instance a server where you could need logs to troubleshoot why disk space is running out...