On Mon, May 4, 2020 at 8:15 PM Chris Murphy <lists@colorremedies.com> wrote:
On Mon, May 4, 2020 at 7:06 PM Richard Shaw <hobbes1069@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Did I miss a change notification at some point?
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> I'm used to seeing a significant date range of data from journalctl but upon checking today, well I only see today...
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> Digging further it said I don't have a persistent storage or something setup.
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> So journalctl.conf is setup for "auto" which means that if /var/log/journal doesn't exist, treat it as volatile, but if /var/log/journal does exist, then treat it as persistent.
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> When did this change? I never removed /var/log/journal....

It's been this way as long as I can remember.

That just doesn't make sense, because I've used journalctl -b -<num> on many occasions, if volatile there's never anything beyond -b 0... 

Thanks,
RIchard