[Bug 1779189] Re: /var/log/journal consumed all available disk space

[Dimitri John Ledkov]

$ journalctl -u systemd-journald | grep max

is interesting to see, right now, and if this starts happening again.

Specifically it would be nice to know the current sizes and max sizes,
and to check if they are being violated or not.

** Changed in: systemd (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Incomplete

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Title:
  /var/log/journal consumed all available disk space

Status in systemd package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  Running 18.04, systemd 237-3ubuntu10, and all of my available disk
  space on /var (4.3G) just got eaten up by systemd-journald.
  /etc/systemd/journald.conf has all the default values (everything
  commented out).  Processes were starting to crash, and I only
  recovered by running "sudo journalctl --vacuum-files=1" which brought
  it back down to 25M.

  My understanding is that the defaults are supposed to prevent this
  from happening.  I'm not familiar enough with systemd to further debug
  why this might have happened.

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