# journalctl |grep -c 'Processing coredump' 2 # coredumpctl --no-legend | wc -l 2 # ls /var/lib/systemd/coredump/ | wc -l 12
So on the coredumpctl, after It's worth noting that different restrictions apply to data saved in the journal and core dump files saved in /var/lib/systemd/coredump, see overview in systemd-coredump(8). Thus it may very well happen that a particular core dump is still listed in the journal while its corresponding core dump file has already been removed. it should also say And it also might very well happen that a particular core dump is not listed in the journal while its corresponding core dump file is still indeed sitting in /var/lib/systemd/coredump. That is because you didn't enable persistent logging in journald. See /usr/share/doc/systemd/README.Debian.gz , and in the meantime use ls(1) to see the coredumps made before the last boot.