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journald disk caps: SystemMaxUse vs MaxRetentionSec vs SystemKeepFree — picking one and ignoring the others

December 3, 2025 by
Open hard drive showing the platter and read-write head — photo by sejio402 on Pexels

journald has three different ways to cap disk usage. They overlap. They interact. The man page lists all of them with equal weight, which makes it tempting to set all three at once and assume the strictest one wins. That’s …

Categories Sysadmin, Tutorials Tags disk-cleanup, journald, linux-server, logging, sysadmin, systemd Leave a comment

Cleaning up /var/lib/docker without breaking the daemon: which dirs are safe to nuke, which aren’t

June 6, 2025 by
Stacked shipping containers in a port yard — photo by Felix Haumann on Pexels

Docker eats disk. Not “uses a lot of disk” — eats. A few months of building images, running containers, mounting volumes, and pulling base layers, and /var/lib/docker is sitting at 80 GB on what was supposed to be a 100 …

Categories DevOps, Sysadmin Tags buildkit, containers, disk-cleanup, docker, linux-server, sysadmin Leave a comment

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