https://mrtomlinux.org/tags/journald/ Recent content in Journald on Linux Café Hugo en Fri, 25 Sep 2026 09:19:19 +0200 https://mrtomlinux.org/post/2026-09-25-when-systemdjournald-ate-my-2gb-ssd-how-i-cap/ Fri, 25 Sep 2026 09:19:19 +0200 https://mrtomlinux.org/post/2026-09-25-when-systemdjournald-ate-my-2gb-ssd-how-i-cap/ <p>I was running a little home‑lab server on a 2 GB SSD. The board was an Orange Pi Zero‑like single‑board computer, and it was juggling a personal web server, a GitLab instance, and a handful of containerised apps. After a month of steady traffic, the SSD hit 100 % on <code>/var</code>. The culprit? <code>systemd‑journald</code> had quietly gobbled up the whole drive.</p> <p><code>journald</code> is the default logger on most modern distros. It keeps logs in binary form under <code>/var/log/journal</code>. By default it will keep everything until the filesystem is full, then start deleting the oldest entries. On a tiny SSD that can happen faster than you can say “disk full”.</p>