From: Greg Wooledge <g...@wooledge.org> Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2021 13:41:05 -0400 > What does it look like? > > ls -ld / /var /var/log /var/log/journal
root@joule:/# ls -ld / /var /var/log drwxr-xr-x 18 peter peter 4096 Sep 27 18:00 / drwxr-xr-x 11 root root 4096 Nov 3 2020 /var drwxr-xr-x 10 root root 4096 Sep 29 06:39 /var/log root@joule:/# ls -lR /var/log/journal /var/log/journal: total 4 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Sep 29 06:46 82516769d28444b49bf2553c1a9d8b27 /var/log/journal/82516769d28444b49bf2553c1a9d8b27: total 32776 -rw-r----- 1 root root 25165824 Sep 29 06:49 system.journal -rw-r-----+ 1 root root 8388608 Sep 29 06:54 user-1000.journal The two files contain binary data. Any chance they are file system journals? Thx, ... P. -- 48.7693 N 123.3053 W mobile: +1 778 951 5147 VoIP: +1 604 670 0140