Re: fstrim and SSDs and cron; was: Re: cron-service

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi!

Danny Milosavljevic <address@hidden> skribis:

> I can confirm that this works!

Great, thanks for testing.

> I'm using it to regularily call fstrim (one has to regularily call
> fstrim on SSDs) so the mcron behaviour of, if an appointment was
> missed, doing it at the first next availability is good for
> regularity. The man page says that trimming once a week is good.
>
> Longer term maybe there should be a way of specifying that a
> filesystem should be trimmed in a "file-system" specification. Note
> that fstrim expects the filesystem to be mounted for it to work.

I had never thought of it, but maybe it’s a good idea.  How do other
distros handle it?

Thanks,
Ludo’.