On Linux Mint 18.3 ("Sylvia"), with default settings, SSD trim is supposed to run once a week, according to https://sites.google.com/site/easylinuxtipsproject/ssd
How can I verify this? Is there a log somewhere showing the last time TRIM ran successfully? Is this run by cron or anacron (there's a file 0anacron in dir /etc/cron.weekly, which makes it seem that the contents of this dir are actually being run by anacron)?
How to check that SSD TRIM is running? (Mint 18.3)
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How to check that SSD TRIM is running? (Mint 18.3)
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Re: How to check that SSD TRIM is running? (Mint 18.3)
See the second answer here.
"There is, ultimately, only one truth -- cogito, ergo sum -- everything else is an assumption." - Me, my swansong.
Re: How to check that SSD TRIM is running? (Mint 18.3)
One way to check is like I do.
I activate TRIM once a month (cron monthly)
Have a 120 GB SSD ,half full.
I can see how write kbytes increases with this command (down below),
once a day. For me about 3 GB /day. But when the TRIM activates
it increases ca 50 GB. It happens ca the 17th of the month. Depends on the
length of the month, because it counts with ca 30 days/month.
(Maybe yours is every Sunday or so, if once a week)
I activate TRIM once a month (cron monthly)
Have a 120 GB SSD ,half full.
I can see how write kbytes increases with this command (down below),
once a day. For me about 3 GB /day. But when the TRIM activates
it increases ca 50 GB. It happens ca the 17th of the month. Depends on the
length of the month, because it counts with ca 30 days/month.
(Maybe yours is every Sunday or so, if once a week)
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xed /sys/fs/ext4/sda1/lifetime_write_kb