[systemd-devel] journald deleting logs on LiveOS boots

[Uoti Urpala]

On Mon, 2019-07-15 at 14:32 -0600, Chris Murphy wrote:
> So far nothing I've tried gets me access to information that would
> give a hint why systemd-journald thinks there's no free space and yet
> it still decides to create a single 8MB system journal, which then
> almost immediately gets deleted, including all the evidence up to that
> point.

Run journald under strace and check the results of the system calls
used to query space? (One way to run it under strace would be to change
the unit file to use "strace -D -o /run/output systemd-journald" as the
process to start.)