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<refentry id="sd_journal_get_usage">

  <refentryinfo>
    <title>sd_journal_get_usage</title>
    <productname>systemd</productname>

    <authorgroup>
      <author>
        <contrib>Developer</contrib>
        <firstname>Lennart</firstname>
        <surname>Poettering</surname>
        <email>lennart@poettering.net</email>
      </author>
    </authorgroup>
  </refentryinfo>

  <refmeta>
    <refentrytitle>sd_journal_get_usage</refentrytitle>
    <manvolnum>3</manvolnum>
  </refmeta>

  <refnamediv>
    <refname>sd_journal_get_usage</refname>
    <refpurpose>Journal disk usage</refpurpose>
  </refnamediv>

  <refsynopsisdiv>
    <funcsynopsis>
      <funcsynopsisinfo>#include &lt;systemd/sd-journal.h&gt;</funcsynopsisinfo>

      <funcprototype>
        <funcdef>int <function>sd_journal_get_usage</function></funcdef>
        <paramdef>sd_journal *<parameter>j</parameter></paramdef>
        <paramdef>uint64_t *<parameter>bytes</parameter></paramdef>
      </funcprototype>

    </funcsynopsis>
  </refsynopsisdiv>

  <refsect1>
    <title>Description</title>

    <para><function>sd_journal_get_usage()</function> determines the
    total disk space currently used by journal files (in bytes). If
    <constant>SD_JOURNAL_LOCAL_ONLY</constant> was passed when opening
    the journal, this value will only reflect the size of journal
    files of the local host, otherwise of all hosts.</para>
  </refsect1>

  <refsect1>
    <title>Return Value</title>

    <para><function>sd_journal_get_usage()</function> returns 0 on
    success or a negative errno-style error code.</para>
  </refsect1>

  <refsect1>
    <title>Notes</title>

    <para>The <function>sd_journal_get_usage()</function> interface is
    available as a shared library, which can be compiled and linked to
    with the
    <constant>libsystemd</constant> <citerefentry project='die-net'><refentrytitle>pkg-config</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>
    file.</para>
  </refsect1>

  <refsect1>
    <title>See Also</title>

    <para>
      <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
      <citerefentry><refentrytitle>sd-journal</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
      <citerefentry><refentrytitle>sd_journal_open</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
    </para>
  </refsect1>

</refentry>