>>> Barry Scott <ba...@barrys-emacs.org> schrieb am 29.05.2022 um 14:22 in Nachricht <038e8fce-5820-4188-91e4-e42b6b448...@barrys-emacs.org>:
> >> On 29 May 2022, at 12:36, baba <for...@free.fr> wrote: >> >> ‑‑‑‑‑ Mail original ‑‑‑‑‑ >> De: "Andrei Borzenkov" <arvidj...@gmail.com> >> >>> In which case? Current active journal file gets archived when it is >>> full. Retention policies apply only to these archived files. >> >> In the case where MaxRetentionSec=3day. >> And what do you mean by full?. >From the header (in your original message) it was obvious that all the dates displayed were covered by a single file. So that file cannot be deleted without deleting everything. Obvious? >> > > There are size limits on the journal files. I think that is what is being > referred to. > See man journald.conf and the SystemMaxFileSize for example. > > Barry
