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    Didn't work. Entries for 15 minutes ago still show up, even after running systemctl restart systemd-journald. Commented Sep 10, 2016 at 4:15
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    Same here. This didn't work for me either. I'm running CentOS7. Commented Aug 3, 2017 at 1:55
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    From the man page "the vacuuming operation only operates on archived journal files." Commented Jul 16, 2021 at 10:51