As mentioned above, that doesn't seem needed [ed: nm, it is - if journald is set to log somewhere other than /run that's usually mounted as a tmpfs].
[S]urely, something like:
mount -t tmpfs /run && pkill journald
[ed: that is, for logs on /var/log: "mount -t tmpfs /var/log && pkill journald"] would make more sense? (In my experience systemd itself does something funky on / -- so the above wouldn't be enough -- but still seem a little more sane than running a chmod on a file (presumably) residing in an fs you want to fsck).
[S]urely, something like:
[ed: that is, for logs on /var/log: "mount -t tmpfs /var/log && pkill journald"] would make more sense? (In my experience systemd itself does something funky on / -- so the above wouldn't be enough -- but still seem a little more sane than running a chmod on a file (presumably) residing in an fs you want to fsck).