Clean up journal logs to free up space on root partition of the SDDC Manager

Products

• VMware SDDC Manager
• VMware Cloud Foundation

Issue/Introduction

Space consumption on the root partition on the SDDC can grow for many reasons and one is the excessive size of journal logs

Environment

VMware Cloud Foundation

Resolution

1. Take Snapshot the SDDC Manager VM
2. SSH to SDDC as vcf user and su to root user
3. Check how much space is being used by the journal logs:

   journalctl --disk-usage

4. Clean up logs over 1 day old: 

   journalctl --vacuum-time=2d

5. Check that some space has been cleared.