Uploaded April 2021 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Managing logfiles is a bit weirder in systemd/journalctl. Here's how to safely clean up old logfiles in Linux.

journalctl --vacuum-time=2d
journalctl --vacuum-size=100M

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