I haven’t had much time to play around with the laptop since swapping the HDD for SSD. So last night I finally made time to finish the installation.
The last step remaining was to setup TRIM so that it would work properly. There are a couple of ways you can do this. You can create a cron job to run fstrim periodically. I chose the alternate route of configuring a timer through systemctl.
The first step was to enable the timer. Here I’m logged in as root so I don’t have to sudo. If it works correctly you should see that it’s created a new symlink.
systemctl enable fstrim.timer Created symlink from /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/fstrim.timer to /usr/lib/systemd/system/fstrim.timer. |
Once the timer has been enabled you can start it so it will run once per week.
systemctl start fstrim.timer |
And finally, you can display the status to make sure it’s active and running.
systemctl status fstrim.timer fstrim.timer - Discard unused blocks once a week Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/fstrim.timer; enabled; vendor preset: disabled) Active: active (waiting) since Mon 2016-02-29 23:08:53 EST; 12s ago Docs: man:fstrim Feb 29 23:08:53 fedlap systemd[1]: Started Discard unused blocks once a week. Feb 29 23:08:53 fedlap systemd[1]: Starting Discard unused blocks once a week. |
