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.
Both links referred to the manpage of it tho. Manpages typically explain the programs purpose in the first sentence. So the guy saying he doesn’t want to read a whole wiki article probably didn’t even click on the links and just assumed it was a 10k line wiki article because it’s from arch.
wow such a great, short and understandable explanation that doesn’t link to a wiki article that no one will voluntarily read
I would ask whether you realize you’re on a linux community, but you referred to a
manpage as a wiki article so you are clearly lost.The first paragraph past the link is a summary of the function of the program.
I think he is referring to the arch wiki
Both links referred to the manpage of it tho. Manpages typically explain the programs purpose in the first sentence. So the guy saying he doesn’t want to read a whole wiki article probably didn’t even click on the links and just assumed it was a 10k line wiki article because it’s from arch.
no it’s a manpage
It’s a systemd timer included within Arch that runs fstrim every week.
Fstrim? Damn near killed 'em.