website/content/blog/clearingsystemdlogs.md

---
date: 2021-02-21 21:08:51
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tags:
- Linux
title: Clearing Systemd Logs
---

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
```