ubuntu 16.04. Change label extreme portable SSD

Colin Law clanlaw at gmail.com
Wed Feb 3 13:50:07 UTC 2021


On Wed, 3 Feb 2021 at 13:15, Ralf Mardorf via ubuntu-users
<ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> wrote:
> ..
> What kind of maintenance does an external SSD need? Trimming? Is it
> essential to use it more often than a HDD, to grant reliability? Etc.?

I believe that Ubuntu by default runs trim regularly if the drive
supports it.  It uses fstrim.service/fstrim.timer and on mine (20.04)
it seems to do it weekly.  Searching syslog for fstrim should find it.

Colin




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