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Re: [LUG] SSD and Trim

 

On Wed, 25 Jun 2014 12:01:56 +0100
John Horne <john.horne@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Thu, 2014-06-12 at 16:10 +0100, Gordon Henderson wrote:
> 
> > 
> > (where /dev/sda is the SSD device)
> > 
> > and look for:
> > 
> >        *    Data Set Management TRIM supported
> > 
> > then if it is, you can manually add
> > 
> >    discard
> > 
> > into the /etc/fstab entry for that disk.
> > 
> I tend to add 'noatime' as well. No point updating an SSD everytime
> something is accessed.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> John.
> 

Or I could use fstrim manually and so decide as and when to run trim.
Or is that not such a good idea?

Neil

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