man: mention that oldest journal files are removed

Fixes #7225.
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Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek 2018-03-23 14:04:13 +01:00
parent 4bb890bc04
commit 752ce3967e
2 changed files with 7 additions and 2 deletions

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@ -752,7 +752,7 @@
<term><option>--vacuum-time=</option></term>
<term><option>--vacuum-files=</option></term>
<listitem><para>Removes archived journal files until the disk
<listitem><para>Removes the oldest archived journal files until the disk
space they use falls below the specified size (specified with
the usual <literal>K</literal>, <literal>M</literal>,
<literal>G</literal> and <literal>T</literal> suffixes), or all

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@ -296,7 +296,12 @@ systemd-tmpfiles --create --prefix /var/log/journal</programlisting>
and the functions in the
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>sd-journal</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>
library should be able to read all entries that have been fully written.</para>
</listitem>
<para><filename>systemd-journald</filename> will automatically remove the oldest
archived journal files to limit disk use. See <varname>SystemMaxUse=</varname>
and related settings in
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>journald.conf</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>.
</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>