From d397191b6d3001c2920e15e3ce3c9e7a31c66436 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?utf8?q?Andr=C3=A9=20Paiusco?=
<2374887+Paiusco@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2023 15:25:01 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] man: Improve text for SystemMaxFileSize when not set
If one sets the SystemMaxUse=64G by the current documentation would expect that each files size would be around 1/8 of this value (8G), althought if the SystemMaxFileSize is not explicit set, it has a max of 128M per file.
---
man/journald.conf.xml | 6 +++---
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/man/journald.conf.xml b/man/journald.conf.xml
index 6b7280781b..1c0487a4fc 100644
--- a/man/journald.conf.xml
+++ b/man/journald.conf.xml
@@ -285,9 +285,9 @@
SystemMaxFileSize= and RuntimeMaxFileSize= control how
large individual journal files may grow at most. This influences the granularity in which disk space
is made available through rotation, i.e. deletion of historic data. Defaults to one eighth of the
- values configured with SystemMaxUse= and RuntimeMaxUse=, so
- that usually seven rotated journal files are kept as history. If the journal compact mode is enabled
- (enabled by default), the maximum file size is capped to 4G.
+ values configured with SystemMaxUse= and RuntimeMaxUse= capped
+ to 128M, so that usually seven rotated journal files are kept as history. If the journal compact
+ mode is enabled (enabled by default), the maximum file size is capped to 4G.
Specify values in bytes or use K, M, G, T, P, E as units for the specified sizes (equal to
1024, 1024², ⦠bytes). Note that size limits are enforced synchronously when journal files are
--
2.25.1