[systemd-devel] .journal~ files

Lennart Poettering lennart at poettering.net
Wed Dec 19 14:25:13 PST 2012


On Thu, 29.11.12 10:34, Cristian Rodríguez (crrodriguez at opensuse.org) wrote:

> 
> El 29/11/12 07:24, Colin Guthrie escribió:
> >Hi,
> >
> >I have several .journal~ files in my journal dir... without me digging
> >into the source, can someone explain what these are and if I can safely
> >remove them (as they are quite large!) like most other ~ files.
> >
> >Cheers
> >
> >Col
> >
> 
> The real problem behind is this:
> 
> "systemd-journald[186]: File
> /var/log/journal/fa719ecdd32d41b7ed0ff545000002b6/system.journal
> corrupted or uncleanly shut down, renaming and replacing."
> 
> In current versions, the journal files are always corrupt after
> reboot, I am not sure why though.

That would indicate that the journal is not shut down cleanly before we
go down. 

Lennart

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