On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 5:11 AM, Per Jessen
systemd seems to be hell-bent on world domination, the journal is taking over for syslog. At least we don't need to let it consume any diskspace. The question is - how does one appropriately remove "/var/log/journal"? See bnc#780624 for what happened when I tried "rm -Rf /var/log/journal".
On my system, which has been running for several months, /var/log takes up a total of 65M. Are you working in the embedded world where space is really at a premium? I can guarantee that if you're not, you'll derive more space savings out of rebuilding every package to exclude those binaries you never actually use. For example, let's look at all the binaries in coreutils: /bin/arch /bin/basename /bin/cat /bin/chgrp /bin/chmod /bin/chown /bin/cp /bin/date /bin/dd /bin/df /bin/echo /bin/false /bin/kill /bin/ln /bin/ls /bin/md5sum /bin/mkdir /bin/mknod /bin/mktemp /bin/mv /bin/pwd /bin/readlink /bin/rm /bin/rmdir /bin/sleep /bin/sort /bin/stat /bin/stty /bin/su /bin/sync /bin/touch /bin/true /bin/uname /usr/bin/[ /usr/bin/arch /usr/bin/base64 /usr/bin/basename /usr/bin/cat /usr/bin/chcon /usr/bin/chgrp /usr/bin/chmod /usr/bin/chown /usr/bin/chroot /usr/bin/cksum /usr/bin/comm /usr/bin/cp /usr/bin/csplit /usr/bin/cut /usr/bin/date /usr/bin/dd /usr/bin/df /usr/bin/dir /usr/bin/dircolors /usr/bin/dirname /usr/bin/du /usr/bin/echo /usr/bin/env /usr/bin/expand /usr/bin/expr /usr/bin/factor /usr/bin/false /usr/bin/fmt /usr/bin/fold /usr/bin/groups /usr/bin/head /usr/bin/hostid /usr/bin/id /usr/bin/install /usr/bin/join /usr/bin/kill /usr/bin/link /usr/bin/ln /usr/bin/logname /usr/bin/ls /usr/bin/md5sum /usr/bin/mkdir /usr/bin/mkfifo /usr/bin/mknod /usr/bin/mktemp /usr/bin/mv /usr/bin/nice /usr/bin/nl /usr/bin/nohup /usr/bin/nproc /usr/bin/od /usr/bin/paste /usr/bin/pathchk /usr/bin/pinky /usr/bin/pr /usr/bin/printenv /usr/bin/printf /usr/bin/ptx /usr/bin/pwd /usr/bin/readlink /usr/bin/realpath /usr/bin/rm /usr/bin/rmdir /usr/bin/runcon /usr/bin/seq /usr/bin/sha1sum /usr/bin/sha224sum /usr/bin/sha256sum /usr/bin/sha384sum /usr/bin/sha512sum /usr/bin/shred /usr/bin/shuf /usr/bin/sleep /usr/bin/sort /usr/bin/split /usr/bin/stat /usr/bin/stdbuf /usr/bin/stty /usr/bin/su /usr/bin/sum /usr/bin/sync /usr/bin/tac /usr/bin/tail /usr/bin/tee /usr/bin/test /usr/bin/timeout /usr/bin/touch /usr/bin/tr /usr/bin/true /usr/bin/truncate /usr/bin/tsort /usr/bin/tty /usr/bin/uname /usr/bin/unexpand /usr/bin/uniq /usr/bin/unlink /usr/bin/uptime /usr/bin/users /usr/bin/vdir /usr/bin/wc /usr/bin/who /usr/bin/whoami /usr/bin/yes How many of these do you actually ever use, perhaps a third of them? Multiple that by thousands of packages and you'll realize a lot more space savings (in the order of gigabytes) over deleting /var/log/journal. -- Chris -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org