Timeline for How to clear journalctl
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| Mar 30, 2023 at 14:44 | comment | added | EkriirkE | On Arch, the vacuum options cleared some intermediary stuff, but the log was always full of stuff from months ago sans the recent stuff. This is the only answer that truly cleared journalctl out | |
| Mar 15, 2021 at 16:00 | comment | added | Dweia | This seems to be the only working command from all the answers here, at least for Ubuntu 18.04. 3 GB of /var/log/journal/* from about 3 years were removed by none of the "vacuum" variants mentioned in other answerd | |
| Dec 26, 2019 at 13:42 | comment | added | 0x777C | Some programs do not handle their logs properly and this may break them | |
| Sep 26, 2019 at 10:43 | comment | added | Kevin Lyda | This is the currently correct answer. It would be nice if the journalctl command could do this but it appears unable. | |
| S Nov 27, 2018 at 11:55 | history | edited | Jeff Schaller♦ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
left the sudo in; the original showed as two lines, which is easier to read
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| S Nov 27, 2018 at 11:55 | history | suggested | T.Todua | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
made one-line
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| Nov 27, 2018 at 10:50 | review | Suggested edits | |||
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| Feb 12, 2018 at 18:23 | comment | added | Synchro |
On Debian Jessie, the path is /run/log.
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| Dec 30, 2016 at 22:11 | review | First posts | |||
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| Dec 30, 2016 at 22:08 | history | answered | Matt | CC BY-SA 3.0 |