Difference between revisions of "Limit the size of .log files & the journal"
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Use your favourite text editor with root priviliges, (starting it with '''sudo''' will do the job). | Use your favourite text editor with root priviliges, (starting it with '''sudo''' will do the job). | ||
A simple edit of the '''/etc/systemd/journald.conf''' allows you to set the maximum size limit of the '''/var/log/journal''' . | A simple edit of the '''/etc/systemd/journald.conf/size.conf''' allows you to set the maximum size limit of the '''/var/log/journal''' . | ||
* Uncomment (remove the # from the beginning of the line) the following line & add the size limit that you want. I set mine to 50MB like this: | * Uncomment (remove the # from the beginning of the line) the following line & add the size limit that you want. I set mine to 50MB like this: | ||
SystemMaxUse=50M | [Journal] | ||
SystemMaxUse=250M | |||
SystemMaxFileSize=50M | |||
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