[systemd-devel] Journald retaining logs for only 10 days

[Nikolaus Rath]

Hello,

I just discovered that on one of my systems journald only retains log
entries for about 10 days:

# journalctl | head -1
-- Logs begin at Wed 2020-11-04 15:57:13 UTC, end at Sat 2020-11-14 09:28:19 UTC. --

I do not understand what could cause this, because I have no retention
limit configured, and the logs take up way less space than I have
reserved:

# journalctl --disk-usage
Archived and active journals take up 320.0M in the file system.

# journalctl > alllogs
# ls -lh alllogs 
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 27M Nov 14 09:24 alllogs


Can someone help me understand where the log entries have gone?

# journalctl --version
systemd 241 (241)
+PAM +AUDIT +SELINUX +IMA +APPARMOR +SMACK +SYSVINIT +UTMP +LIBCRYPTSETUP +GCRYPT +GNUTLS +ACL +XZ +LZ4 +SECCOMP +BLKID +ELFUTILS +KMOD -IDN2 +IDN -PCRE2 default-hierarchy=hybrid

# grep -vE '^#' /etc/systemd/journald.conf 

[Journal]
SystemMaxUse=300M


Best,
-Nikolaus

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