So I went back to default journald.conf and rebooted and still /var/log/journal is 100% full. So I manually deleted a bunch of files, getting to 60% full. Reboot again. And now journald does some kind of clean up, and /var/log/journal is 28% full. Somehow journald would not delete its own files until I had deleted a few manually. The default is too small so for now I've gone back to SystemMaxUse=1200M which causes systemd-journald at next reboot: Jul 11 13:34:30 f28h.local systemd-journald[482]: System journal (/var/log/journal/bbe68372db9f4c589a1f67f008e70864) is 216.2M, max 1.1G, 983.7M free. Not much to go on. Chris Murphy