website/content/blog/clearingsystemdlogs.md

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title: "Clearing Systemd Logs"
date: 2021-02-21T16:08:51-05:00
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tags: ["Linux"]
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---

Short post today. I wanted to clear out some disk space usage on one of my servers and noticed that the systemd logs were taking up a decent bit. Here are two options to clear out old logs.

Here is an example to do it by time, let's say 15 days:

```bash
journalctl --vacuum-time=15d
```

An example to clear it by total disk usage, let's say 10Gb:

```bash
journalctl --vacuum-size=10G
```