Disk Space and root/var/log/journal/ Directory

Installation Home Assistant OS
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I’m Running HA within an Oracle VM, have the VM set to 64 GB for disk space, HA sees only 32 GB of that, do not understand why.

HA reports that it’s using 51% of the 32 GB, OK no space problems [ I have had some in the past, Have not set Log Entries in the ConFig file, so should default to 50 or so].

Looking around using: sudo du, I find that 3 GB is being consumed in log entries at the system level within: /var/log/journal.

After reading a bit, there are comments in the Linux community that stated that these Journal files can be deleted, but not the directory. So is this True? Can I delete the files?

Next Question:
Does HA actively managed these journal entries?
If so what conf file entry am I’m should place within the file?

Next Question:
Can anyone talk about, systemd?

Thanks, Jim

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I have a similar problem - have run out of space and /var/log/journal seems to be the culprit.
Does anyone know if it is OK to clear the contents of this folder on an HA system please?

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/var/log/journal should grow to 4Gb and then stop growing. You can try to delete it, but it will grow again.

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I am having this issues as well as documented here.
I cannot figure out how to get these journal files under control!