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index 4b8bd19..8903f85 100644
--- a/live/blog/a/arch_logs_flooding_disk.html
+++ b/live/blog/a/arch_logs_flooding_disk.html
@@ -91,13 +91,13 @@
<p>It&rsquo;s been a while since I&rsquo;ve been running a minimal server on a VPS, and it is a pretty humble VPS with just 32 GB of storage which works for me as I&rsquo;m only hosting a handful of services. At some point I started noticing that the disk keept filling up on each time I checked.</p>
<p>Turns out that out of the box, Arch has a default config for <code>systemd</code>&lsquo;s <code>journald</code> that keeps a persistent <code>journal</code> log, but doesn&rsquo;t have a limit on how much logging is kept. This means that depending on how many services, and how aggresive they log, it can be filled up pretty quickly. For me I had around 15 GB of logs, from the normal <code>journal</code> directory, <code>nginx</code> directory and my now unused <code>prosody</code> instance.</p>
<p>For <code>prosody</code> it was just a matter of deleting the directory as I&rsquo;m not using it anymore, which freed around 4 GB of disk space.
-For <code>journal</code> I did a combination of configuring <code>SystemMaxUse</code> and creating a <em>Namespace</em> for all &ldquo;email&rdquo; related services as mentioned in the <a href="https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Systemd/Journal#Per_unit_size_limit_by_a_journal_namespace">Arch wiki: systemd/Journal</a>; basically just configuring <code>/etc/systemd/journald.conf</code> (and <code>/etc/systemd/journald@email.con</code> with the comment change) with:</p>
-<pre><code class="language-conf">[Journal]
+For <code>journal</code> I did a combination of configuring <code>SystemMaxUse</code> and creating a <em>Namespace</em> for all &ldquo;email&rdquo; related services as mentioned in the <a href="https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Systemd/Journal#Per_unit_size_limit_by_a_journal_namespace">Arch wiki: systemd/Journal</a>; basically just configuring <code>/etc/systemd/journald.conf</code> (and <code>/etc/systemd/journald@email.conf</code> with the comment change) with:</p>
+<pre><code class="language-ini">[Journal]
Storage=persistent
SystemMaxUse=100MB # 50MB for the &quot;email&quot; Namespace
</code></pre>
<p>And then for each service that I want to use this &ldquo;email&rdquo; <em>Namespace</em> I add:</p>
-<pre><code class="language-conf">[Service]
+<pre><code class="language-ini">[Service]
LogNamespace=email
</code></pre>
<p>Which can be changed manually or by executing <code>systemctl edit service_name.service</code> and it will create an override file which will be read on top of the normal service configuration. Once configured restart by running <code>systemctl daemon-reload</code> and <code>systemctl restart service_name.service</code> (probably also restart <code>systemd-journald</code>).</p>
@@ -142,6 +142,7 @@ LogNamespace=email
<div class="article-info">
<p>By David Luévano</p>
<p>Created: Thu, Jun 15, 2023 @ 10:22 UTC</p>
+ <p>Modified: Thu, Jun 15, 2023 @ 10:24 UTC</p>
<div class="article-tags">
<p>Tags:
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diff --git a/live/blog/rss.xml b/live/blog/rss.xml
index 9c7de3e..d96d238 100644
--- a/live/blog/rss.xml
+++ b/live/blog/rss.xml
@@ -37,13 +37,13 @@
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It&rsquo;s been a while since I&rsquo;ve been running a minimal server on a VPS, and it is a pretty humble VPS with just 32 GB of storage which works for me as I&rsquo;m only hosting a handful of services. At some point I started noticing that the disk keept filling up on each time I checked.</p>
<p>Turns out that out of the box, Arch has a default config for <code>systemd</code>&lsquo;s <code>journald</code> that keeps a persistent <code>journal</code> log, but doesn&rsquo;t have a limit on how much logging is kept. This means that depending on how many services, and how aggresive they log, it can be filled up pretty quickly. For me I had around 15 GB of logs, from the normal <code>journal</code> directory, <code>nginx</code> directory and my now unused <code>prosody</code> instance.</p>
<p>For <code>prosody</code> it was just a matter of deleting the directory as I&rsquo;m not using it anymore, which freed around 4 GB of disk space.
-For <code>journal</code> I did a combination of configuring <code>SystemMaxUse</code> and creating a <em>Namespace</em> for all &ldquo;email&rdquo; related services as mentioned in the <a href="https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Systemd/Journal#Per_unit_size_limit_by_a_journal_namespace">Arch wiki: systemd/Journal</a>; basically just configuring <code>/etc/systemd/journald.conf</code> (and <code>/etc/systemd/journald@email.con</code> with the comment change) with:</p>
-<pre><code class="language-conf">[Journal]
+For <code>journal</code> I did a combination of configuring <code>SystemMaxUse</code> and creating a <em>Namespace</em> for all &ldquo;email&rdquo; related services as mentioned in the <a href="https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Systemd/Journal#Per_unit_size_limit_by_a_journal_namespace">Arch wiki: systemd/Journal</a>; basically just configuring <code>/etc/systemd/journald.conf</code> (and <code>/etc/systemd/journald@email.conf</code> with the comment change) with:</p>
+<pre><code class="language-ini">[Journal]
Storage=persistent
SystemMaxUse=100MB # 50MB for the &quot;email&quot; Namespace
</code></pre>
<p>And then for each service that I want to use this &ldquo;email&rdquo; <em>Namespace</em> I add:</p>
-<pre><code class="language-conf">[Service]
+<pre><code class="language-ini">[Service]
LogNamespace=email
</code></pre>
<p>Which can be changed manually or by executing <code>systemctl edit service_name.service</code> and it will create an override file which will be read on top of the normal service configuration. Once configured restart by running <code>systemctl daemon-reload</code> and <code>systemctl restart service_name.service</code> (probably also restart <code>systemd-journald</code>).</p>