[systemd-devel] .journal~ files

[Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek]

On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 12:44:08PM +0100, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 10:24:48AM +0000, Colin Guthrie wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> They are rotated journal files. Each time journald opens an uncleanly
> closed journal file, it will rotate. Also if the index structures in
> the journal file are too full, or the file is too big, it will be
> rotated.
Oh, I missed the tilde: it means that the file was unclean.

Zbyszek