diff --git a/setup/start/logrotate/platform b/setup/start/logrotate/platform
index 83babe233..f6bb90437 100644
--- a/setup/start/logrotate/platform
+++ b/setup/start/logrotate/platform
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@
     missingok
     # we never compress so we can simply tail the files
     nocompress
+    # this truncates the original log file and not the rotated one
     copytruncate
 }
 
diff --git a/src/logrotate.ejs b/src/logrotate.ejs
index e2d97ccc0..3e0c6e032 100644
--- a/src/logrotate.ejs
+++ b/src/logrotate.ejs
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@
     maxsize 1M
     missingok
     delaycompress
+    # this truncates the original log file and not the rotated one
     copytruncate
 }
 
@@ -18,6 +19,7 @@
     missingok
     # we never compress so we can simply tail the files
     nocompress
+    # this truncates the original log file and not the rotated one
     copytruncate
 }