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what are system.journal and templates.dat
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Reducing log files to 10 MB seems overly optimistic. On my system /var/log is 194 MB:
$ sudo du -h -d1 /var/log
148K /var/log/lightdm
8.0K /var/log/hp
4.0K /var/log/speech-dispatcher
4.0K /var/log/dist-upgrade
1.7M /var/log/installer
4.0K /var/log/upstart
4.0K /var/log/gdm3
160K /var/log/apt
185M /var/log/journal
12K /var/log/fsck
68K /var/log/cups
4.0K /var/log/unattended-upgrades
194M /var/log
The journal log file in question is 185 MB on my system and was 312 MB before I used the vacuum cleaner (function’s real name) to reduce it’s size below 200 MB.
As far as /var/log/installer/cdebconf/ goes there is no such directory on my machine. I did find a reference where 75 GB was consumed there for someone else.