It's really not that hard

possiblylinux127, 1 year ago

Doesn’t btrfs do this already?

DmMacniel, 1 year ago

The what?

Devorlon, 1 year ago

It’s a systemd timer included within Arch that runs fstrim every week.

FQQD, 1 year ago

and what does that achieve?

taaz, 1 year ago

It’s a systemd timer included within Arch that runs fstrim every week.

FQQD, 1 year ago

wow such a great, short and understandable explanation that doesn’t link to a wiki article that no one will voluntarily read

Trashboat, 1 year ago

It’s a systemd timer included within Arch that runs fstrim every week.

subignition, 1 year ago

I would ask whether you realize you're on a linux community, but you referred to a man page as a wiki article so you are clearly lost.

The first paragraph past the link is a summary of the function of the program.

fstrim is used on a mounted filesystem to discard (or "trim") blocks which are not in use by the filesystem. This is useful for solid-state drives (SSDs) and thinly-provisioned storage.