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Linux SSD TRIM support in 2023
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You typically use either
discard
or thefstrim.timer
, but not both at the same time.Using the
discard
option means that trims are being done on the fly every time blocks are deleted, usingfstrim.timer
means that trims are being done periodically. The former carries a performance penalty, so it's usually not recommended unless you need it (for example, if you regularly do huge amounts of writes and deletes on this drive).Thanks for this. I got confused writhing this as I used
discard
on my previous install.