https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1226415 Bug ID: 1226415 Summary: data loss: update 15.5 => 15.6 deletes old journal entries Classification: openSUSE Product: openSUSE Distribution Version: Leap 15.6 Hardware: Other OS: Other Status: NEW Severity: Critical Priority: P5 - None Component: Upgrade Problems Assignee: screening-team-bugs@suse.de Reporter: seife@novell.slipkontur.de QA Contact: jsrain@suse.com Target Milestone: --- Found By: --- Blocker: --- Created attachment 875512 --> https://bugzilla.suse.com/attachment.cgi?id=875512&action=edit /var/log/journal filesystem statistics I updated my server from 15.5 to 15.6 yesterday and encountered a critical data loss: My journal is configured to have its own file system for /var/log/journal (8GB) to keep it from eating too much disk space, the config in /etc/systemd/journald.conf is like this: [Journal] SystemMaxFileSize=8M SystemMaxFiles=1024 SystemMaxUse=6666M SystemKeepFree=10% After the update, the journal was pruned from 6,5GB to 850MB, removing all files older than one months (see attached screenshot) server:~ # ls -l /var/log/journal/63ab585aac31189cc7872956493ee6b3/ -t | tail -rw-r----- 1 root systemd-journal 8388608 Mai 21 07:54 system@62ccf578371040008472a383bf2e369b-00000000004f25f0-000618e2f318a881.journal -rw-r-----+ 1 root systemd-journal 8388608 Mai 21 07:54 user-10329@00a919c7569e4d03a5a88dc16264a4d4-00000000004f264f-000618e347c0f293.journal -rw-r----- 1 root systemd-journal 8388608 Mai 20 15:48 system@62ccf578371040008472a383bf2e369b-00000000004f1160-000618d40ffb0c6d.journal -rw-r-----+ 1 root systemd-journal 8388608 Mai 20 15:48 user-10329@00a919c7569e4d03a5a88dc16264a4d4-00000000004f117c-000618d422c788ee.journal -rw-r-----+ 1 root systemd-journal 8388608 Mai 19 22:02 user-10329@00a919c7569e4d03a5a88dc16264a4d4-00000000004f0154-000618cbae280621.journal -rw-r----- 1 root systemd-journal 8388608 Mai 19 22:02 system@62ccf578371040008472a383bf2e369b-00000000004efaa0-000618cbaa041e71.journal -rw-r----- 1 root systemd-journal 8388608 Mai 19 12:01 system@62ccf578371040008472a383bf2e369b-00000000004ee2ab-000618bd84364db7.journal -rw-r-----+ 1 root systemd-journal 8388608 Mai 19 12:01 user-10329@00a919c7569e4d03a5a88dc16264a4d4-00000000004ee2f8-000618bda6f3a682.journal -rw-r----- 1 root systemd-journal 8388608 Mai 18 19:08 system@62ccf578371040008472a383bf2e369b-00000000004ecd0a-000618ade47d8e5b.journal -rw-r-----+ 1 root systemd-journal 8388608 Mai 18 19:08 user-10329@00a919c7569e4d03a5a88dc16264a4d4-00000000004ecd92-000618ae6f97b723.journal -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug.