[kwlug-disc] Installing onto an SSD

[Paul Nijjar]

On Fri, Mar 12, 2021 at 02:23:48PM -0500, Khalid Baheyeldin wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 12, 2021 at 2:12 PM Paul Nijjar via kwlug-disc <
> kwlug-disc at kwlug.org> wrote:
> 
> > So on Debian 10 the install did not do everything. There is a
> > fstrim.timer job set up for systemd, but I needed
> >
> > systemctl enable fstrim.timer
> >
> > in order to activate it.
> >
> > I also made the change to my /etc/default/grub to disable
> > queued trim. Thanks for the suggestions. I was feeling dumb for asking
> > (I am the last human being on Earth who had not moved into the 21st
> > century with an SSD) but I am glad I asked.
> 
> 
> Just checked on my Xubuntu 18.04, and found this:
> 
> # systemctl status fstrim.timer
>  fstrim.timer - Discard unused blocks once a week
>    Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/fstrim.timer; enabled; vendor
> preset: enabled)
>    Active: active (waiting) since Fri 2021-01-15 13:37:23 EST; 1 months 25
> days ago
>   Trigger: Mon 2021-03-15 00:00:00 EDT; 2 days left
>      Docs: man:fstrim
> 
> Jan 15 13:37:23 tilapia systemd[1]: Started Discard unused blocks once a
> week.
> 
> So it seems that it is enabled by default, and working ...


Mine said something like:


>    Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/fstrim.timer; disabled; vendor preset: enabled)

That did not make sense to me (I did not explicitly disable the timer)
but I did not investigate deeply. I just enabled the timer and went on
with my life. This was a fresh install of Debian, so it was not as if
this was the result of an upgrade path either.

- Paul


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