FSTRIM

Section: discard parts or the whole filesystem with ATA TRIM (8) Updated: 2010-11-13 Local index Up

NAME

fstrim - discard parts or the whole filesystem with ATA TRIM

SYNOPSIS

fstrim [OPTIONS] MOUNTPOINT

DESCRIPTION

This program uses FITRIM (merged in linux-2.6.36) ioctl to discard parts or the whole filesystem online (mounted). You can specify range (start and length) to be discarded, or simply discard while filesystem.

OPTIONS

-l length: Number of Bytes to discard from the start.
-m minimum-extent: Minimum extent length to discard.
-s start: Starting Byte to discard from.
-v [mountpoint]: Verbose - number of discarded bytes".

HOMEPAGE

More information about fstrim can be found at <http://fstrim.sourceforge.net/>.

AUTHOR

fstrim was written by Lukas Czerner <lczerner@redhat.com>.

This manual page was written by Daniel Baumann <daniel@debian.org>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others).

This document was created by man2html, using the manual pages.
Time: 08:00:51 GMT, June 15, 2011