• subignition@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    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.

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      1 year ago

      I think he is referring to the arch wiki

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        1 year ago

        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.