https://mrtomlinux.org/tags/podman-logs-rootless-journald-linux/ Recent content in Podman-Logs-Rootless-Journald-Linux on Linux Café Hugo en Mon, 19 Oct 2026 09:39:53 +0200 https://mrtomlinux.org/post/2026-10-19-how-i-prevented-a-rootless-podman-container-f/ Mon, 19 Oct 2026 09:39:53 +0200 https://mrtomlinux.org/post/2026-10-19-how-i-prevented-a-rootless-podman-container-f/ <h2 id="the-problem">The Problem</h2> <p>Running a rootless Podman container on a home‑lab server is great for isolation, but the logs it spits out can quietly eat up disk space. I once had a simple nginx container that, after a few days, filled a 20 GB SSD with log files. The container was running as my normal user, so I couldn’t just <code>rm -rf /var/lib/containers/...</code> without risking a permission error. The real issue was that Podman, by default, writes container stdout/stderr to files under <code>/var/lib/containers/storage/overlay-containers/.../files/var/log/</code> and those files never rotate.</p>