Re: fstrim for ESP on SSDs

2020-11-16 Thread Jorge Fábregas
On 11/15/20 7:36 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: > FAT supports discards since kernel ~4.19. > > fstrim doesn't have file system specific support, it directly calls > FITRIM() ioctl and the kernel handles the file system specifics. Got it. So do you recommend putting the discard option then for as littl

Re: fstrim for ESP on SSDs

2020-11-15 Thread Chris Murphy
On Sun, Nov 15, 2020 at 9:34 AM Jorge Fábregas wrote: > > Hi, > > I've been running with the fstrim.timer for years and recently noticed > that my ESP partition always reports the same amount for trimmed blocks > (512MB). It appears fstrim doesn't support FAT32 filesystems? FAT supports discards

fstrim for ESP on SSDs

2020-11-15 Thread Jorge Fábregas
Hi, I've been running with the fstrim.timer for years and recently noticed that my ESP partition always reports the same amount for trimmed blocks (512MB). It appears fstrim doesn't support FAT32 filesystems? Should I use the "discard" option in fstab for /boot/efi ? I know it's not a big issue