Re: fstrim(8)

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On Fri, 26 Nov 2010, Karel Zak wrote:

> 
>  Hi,
> 
>  I have merged a new command fstrim(8) from Lukas (also thanks to
>  Eric).  The command is a wrapper for FITRIM ioctl (kernel >= 2.6.36,
>  supported for ext4 and planned for ext3 and gfs2 -- right?).

I think that Christoph is working on XFS implementation.

> 
>  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.
> 
>  http://git.kernel.org/?p=utils/util-linux-ng/util-linux-ng.git;a=commit;h=d9e2d0dd144c2c06bff590c35400965016e55b7c
> 
>     Karel

Thank you Karel!

-Lukas
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