diff --git a/man/journalctl.xml b/man/journalctl.xml
index 5102dcdd39..d7e99d4251 100644
--- a/man/journalctl.xml
+++ b/man/journalctl.xml
@@ -749,32 +749,28 @@
- Removes the oldest archived journal files until the disk
- space they use falls below the specified size (specified with
- the usual K, M,
- G and T suffixes), or all
- archived journal files contain no data older than the specified
- timespan (specified with the usual s,
- m, h,
- days, months,
- weeks and years suffixes),
- or no more than the specified number of separate journal files
- remain. Note that running has
- only an indirect effect on the output shown by
- , as the latter includes active
- journal files, while the vacuuming operation only operates
- on archived journal files. Similarly,
- might not actually reduce the
- number of journal files to below the specified number, as it
- will not remove active journal
- files. ,
- and
- may be combined in a single
- invocation to enforce any combination of a size, a time and a
- number of files limit on the archived journal
- files. Specifying any of these three parameters as zero is
- equivalent to not enforcing the specific limit, and is thus
- redundant.
+ Removes the oldest archived journal files until the disk space they use falls below the
+ specified size (specified with the usual K, M, G and
+ T suffixes), or all archived journal files contain no data older than the specified timespan
+ (specified with the usual s, m, h,
+ days, months, weeks and years
+ suffixes), or no more than the specified number of separate journal files remain. Note that running
+ has only an indirect effect on the output shown by
+ , as the latter includes active journal files, while the vacuuming operation only
+ operates on archived journal files. Similarly, might not actually reduce the
+ number of journal files to below the specified number, as it will not remove active journal
+ files.
+
+ , and
+ may be combined in a single invocation to enforce any combination of a size, a time and a number of files limit
+ on the archived journal files. Specifying any of these three parameters as zero is equivalent to not enforcing
+ the specific limit, and is thus redundant.
+
+ These three switches may also be combined with into one command. If so, all
+ active files are rotated first, and the requested vacuuming operation is executed right after. The rotation has
+ the effect that all currently active files are archived (and potentially new, empty journal files opened as
+ replacement), and hence the vacuuming operation has the greatest effect as it can take all log data written so
+ far into account.
@@ -896,9 +892,12 @@
- Asks the journal daemon to rotate journal
- files. This call does not return until the rotation operation
- is complete.
+ Asks the journal daemon to rotate journal files. This call does not return until the rotation
+ operation is complete. Journal file rotation has the effect that all currently active journal files are marked
+ as archived and renamed, so that they are never written to in future. New (empty) journal files are then
+ created in their place. This operation may be combined with ,
+ and into a single command, see
+ above.