Difference between revisions of "Limit the size of .log files & the journal"
Limit the size of .log files & the journal (view source)
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By experimenting with the above commands one can make an informed decision for themselves, though as mentioned at the beginning of the Journal section, Arch & therefore Manjaro still run both the new systemd journal & the old style log file system in parallel. So if you find the /var/log/*log files to be redundant & you want to be rid of them, various methods would be effective. | By experimenting with the above commands one can make an informed decision for themselves, though as mentioned at the beginning of the Journal section, Arch & therefore Manjaro still run both the new systemd journal & the old style log file system in parallel. So if you find the /var/log/*log files to be redundant & you want to be rid of them, various methods would be effective. | ||
Currently I'm running my system with syslog-ng (& its dependency) deleted. I deleted all of the log files from the /var/log directory (leaving any that are in their own sub-directories), except for Xorg.0.log , Xorg.0.old , lastlog , btmp & wtmp . The deleted log files came back on reboot, but having since deleted them again they have stayed deleted for multiple reboots. | Currently I'm running my system with syslog-ng (& its dependency) deleted. I deleted all of the log files from the /var/log directory (leaving any that are in their own sub-directories), except for Xorg.0.log , Xorg.0.old , lastlog , btmp & wtmp (pacman.log turned up when pacman was used). The deleted log files came back on reboot, but having since deleted them again they have stayed deleted for multiple reboots. | ||
= Managing /var/log/* files = | = Managing /var/log/* files = | ||