If you’ve had your phone for a while now and haven’t done a clean install or re-flashed the OS recently, there’s a good chance you can reclaim a significant amount of disk space by hoovering up the journal logs. From the terminal you can see how much disk space the journal logs are currently occupy…

Before it came with all O/S, reminds me of the days of DOS and Windows 3.1. I think it was Norton that offered a disc data optimizer (to speed up loading your programs!). Depending on how messy it was, it could run for a long time. The graphics were fun to watch, as they used whole colored charac…

[image] tracy: The graphics were fun to watch, as they used whole colored characters to represent disc sectors. You could hypotize yourself watching the letters rearrange themselves on the screen. Hahaha I used to be mildly mesmerized by that as a kid.

Thanks for the tip. I actually hadn’t done that in the 8+ years that I’ve owned my System76 Ubuntu laptop so I just reclaimed 2G and will be keeping that in my notes. Thanks!

[image] Loki: sudo journalctl ... I suggest making that permanent and automatic. Or at least that’s what I have done. /etc/systemd/journald.conf

Apologies for the necro, but to clarify, the modification to /etc/systemd/journald.conf to limit the maximum size of the journald logs is as follows. As root, modify the file to uncomment #SystemMaxUse= and set a max threshhold in MB (M), GB (G), etc. SystemMaxUse=512M Save the file and restart…

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This is what a distribution (PureOS, Debian) should do - set the defaults that most users want and let the minority make changes. Not to mention that devs and maintainers should know better than most of their users to select good defaults.

I agree. These are settings I feel would best benefit users to bake in as defaults. Losing 10% of internal storage to a journal log is excessive and, if my parents hypothetically picked up a Librem 5, I wouldn’t expect to have to inform them to modify a system file to avoid log bloat.

Yes I’m an old head too that remembers this feeding my ocd.

I also have issues with disk space as I mentioned here (focused on the boot partition): [image] Low space on boot Hardware I know that OP ask something specific, but my L5 also says low disc space, both on rootfs and boot. I have a very hard time to get enough…

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