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title	date	draft	tags	medium_enabled
Clearing Systemd Logs	2021-02-21T16:08:51-05:00	false	Linux	true

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:

journalctl --vacuum-time=15d

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

journalctl --vacuum-size=10G