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By Default, Ubuntu (20.04) runs fstrim on /etc/fstab entries; NOT all mounted devices.

May 27, 2021 by Riyad Kalla

I’ve been Chia mining and one of the staples of Chia mining, to keep your SSDs from imploding, is to constantly trim the drives. Fortunately in Ubuntu, this is handled for you already by the systemd service manager and the fstrim service – but out of the box it runs once a week. We want … Read more

Categories Blog Tags fstrim, nvme, ssd, systemd, ubuntu 4 Comments

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