Thanks for the feedback, that explained it quite succinctly........ sudo fstrim -v /boot /boot xxxxxxxxxxx bytes were trimmed, all is right with the world :-).
sudo fstrim -v / fstrim /: FITRIM ioctl failed: Operation not supported . WTH, Are you stupid? On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 4:50 PM, Chris Knadle <[email protected]>wrote: > On Wednesday, February 13, 2013 16:22:47, Michael Quick wrote: > > I'm old school running RHEL6 with Kernel 2.6 x86_64... I might as well > > have just said I was running my OS off of 5 and a quarters... lol > > AFAICT there is a conceptual problem with TRIM + LUKS. > > The idea behind LUKS is having the entire partition encrypted (usually > filled > with random garbage first), and then putting a filesystem on top of the > random > garbage. This means that the LUKS partition is "always full". The idea > behind TRIM is to tell the SSD which blocks are now unused. These seem to > be > mutually-exclusive things. > > According to Wikipedia only certain filesystems support TRIM. Ext4 and XFS > do, but Ext3 supposedly only supports offline TRIMming via a system call. > > Out of curiosity what error are you getting? > > -- Chris > > -- > Chris Knadle > [email protected] > _______________________________________________ > Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org > http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug > > Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) Vassar College > Feb 6 - Raspberry Pi > Mar 6 - 10th Anniversary Meeting - Linux where you least expect it > Apr 3 - Typography: Physical Art to Digital Art >
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