Hi. I'm not sure what distro I want to install (pop os, ubuntu or manjaro). I never check logs and I don't want to wear out my SDD by writing to it constantly. Can I decrease logs or turn it off completely?
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Logs won't wear out an SSD.
Your SSD will outlive you, but if you insist that you do not want logging, disable/mask/remove [r]syslog.
As in have a bootscript unlink it? Or do you mean disable/uninstall rsyslogd?
You can leave rsyslog installed, but to ensure there is no logging the service needs to be disabled or masked. Or use the package manager to remove the entire package.
There are several different places where logging occurs, zeitgeist is one if you have gnome DE installed, syslog, the kernel ringbuffer, shell history, journalctl, and auditctl if you've configured it.
Overall its good to have logs because you can then figure out what happened and fix it when strange behavior is found. Most logs are automatically rotated every so often to prevent drive space exhaustion, this is done with cron/anacron job and logrotate.
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/etc/systemd/journald.confand setStorage=none(don't save logs at all) orStorage=volatile(save logs to RAM only.)Note that this won't effect your SSD life. Modern SSDs are good for around a petabyte of writes and log activity might work out to a couple gigabytes per year.