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Re: Bringing Mobian closer to Debian



Hi Jonas,

Le 09/09/2021 à 13:42, Jonas Smedegaard a écrit :
> Quoting Arnaud Ferraris (2021-09-09 13:24:52)
>> Hi,
>>
>> Le 09/09/2021 à 06:29, Paul Wise a écrit :
>>> On Tue, Sep 7, 2021 at 4:12 PM Arnaud Ferraris wrote:
>>>
>>>> Mostly scripts and config files, to give just a few examples:
>>>> - systemd config file fragments (journal size, power key 
>>>>   handling...)
>>>
>>> systemd journal size is automatically scaled as needed I thought, so
>>> configuring it shouldn't be needed, especially on a per-device basis.
>>
>> Without the default configuration, logs from journald after more than 
>> a year of daily driving the PinePhone were taking up ~2.6GB (out of 
>> 16GB total internal storage), so having a time limit on systemd 
>> journal seems necessary (e.g. shipping in mobile-tweaks-common, no 
>> need for it to be device-specific).
> 
> Journald consumes storage that seems otherwise unused.
> 
> I agree that's not always ideal, but if the concern is amount of space 
> consumed then tune that, and only if length of history collected is the 
> concern tune that.
> 
> If preferred to not store anything at all then an alternative not 
> involving config changes is to remove /var/log/journal to only log to 
> memory.

That makes sense, thanks for the hints. We definitely want to keep
storing some amount of history though, these logs can often be helpful
for debugging/troubleshooting at the very least.

Cheers,
Arnaud

> 
> See `man journald.conf` for details.
> 
> 
>  - Jonas
> 


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