On Dec 11, 2013 5:38 PM, "Cecil Westerhof" <<a href="mailto:Cecil.Westerhof@snow.nl">Cecil.Westerhof@snow.nl</a>> wrote: > > On 12/06/2013 01:18 PM, Mantas Mikulėnas wrote: >> >> > Is it possible to do an automatic shutdown when there is no more room >> to for journald to log? (They did not want to have logging removed.) >> >> Currently no. journald tries to never use more than the configured % of >> disk space and rotates away old logs, so it won't ever see a "disk full" >> error. But a syslog daemon might help. > > > The person asking it found it not acceptable that logging disappeared. But it could be done by a cron job of-course. Logging does not disappear; /old/ logs do. If they need to be preserved, run a syslog daemon (either local with /var/log/syslog or remote with a logserver), or periodically back up old (rotated) .journals... Or, well, post a feature request? (Actually, I wonder what happens if you set the maximum to 100% of disk...)