SSD trimming as a cron job

Posted: 2016-01-23 | Author: | Filed under: system | Tags: , , , , , , , | 3 Comments

I use XFS for my SSD and the partitions are mounted with default settings in /etc/fstab. Instead of using the discard option, I decided to set the fstrim command running as a cron job. As a side note, other filesystems that support trimming listed in the Arch Wiki are: Btrfs, Ext4, JFS.
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Faster boot

Posted: 2014-05-17 | Author: | Filed under: desktop, system | Tags: , , , | Leave a comment

I usually do not care too much about my system boot time. Slackware running on modern hardware, especially with a SSD for / (root file system) will boot very fast without any additional tweaking. My laptop, however, does not have a SSD and although the machine is relatively new, I find it convenient to speed up the booting a little more. Read the rest of this entry »