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a_neutrino

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From: Montreal, Canada

Registered: 2010-03-14

Posts: 50

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How to manage journald corrupt files

Hi,

From "man 8 systemd-journald.service":

If the daemon is stopped uncleanly, or if the files are found to be corrupted, they are renamed using the ".journal~" suffix, and systemd-journald starts writing to a new file.

Should I do something special with those ".journal~" files? Do I have to clean them up manually? Is it really possible to ever have "journalctl --verify" exit 0?

Thanks.

WonderWoofy

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From: Los Gatos, CA

Registered: 2012-05-19

Posts: 8,414

Re: How to manage journald corrupt files

They should be fine to just leave there.  From time to time, I go through and delete them, as this non-zero exit status makes me feel kind of uneasy in an OCD kind of way.  But they shouldn't hurt anything.  I think that the journalctl command can still go through them and display the contents.