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Re: Wiping an unencrypted SSD in preparation for encryption

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On Fri, Jun 11, 2021 at 05:55:02AM -0700, David Christensen wrote:
> On 6/10/21 11:49 PM, Reco wrote:
> > On Thu, Jun 10, 2021 at 11:43:12PM -0700, David Christensen wrote:
> > > I don't bother with the 'discard' option in /etc/fstab, but perhaps I
> > > should.  The fstab(5) and mount(8) manual pages are unclear if
> > > 'discard' applies to swap or ext4.
> > 
> > swapon(8):
> > 
> >     -d, --discard[=policy]
> > 	  Enable  swap  discards ... The /etc/fstab mount options discard,
> > discard=once, or discard=pages may also be used to enable discard flags.
> > 
> > 
> > Therefore 'discard' can be applied to both ext4 and swap.
> 
> Thank you for the clarification regarding trim and swap.
> 
> Where do you see the information for ext4?

You just have to know where to look - ext4(5):

discard/nodiscard
	Controls  whether  ext4  should issue discard/TRIM commands to the
underlying block device when blocks are freed.  This is useful for SSD
devices and sparse/thinly-provisioned LUNs, but it is off by default
until sufficient testing has been done.


How exactly this ended in manpages section 5 (which is "File formats and
conventions eg /etc/passwd") is anyone's guess.

Reco

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Wiping an unencrypted SSD in preparation for encryption David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2021-06-11 06:40 +0200
  Re: Wiping an unencrypted SSD in preparation for encryption Jeremy Ardley <jeremy@ardley.org> - 2021-06-11 06:50 +0200
  Re: Wiping an unencrypted SSD in preparation for encryption songbird <songbird@anthive.com> - 2021-06-11 07:00 +0200
  Re: Wiping an unencrypted SSD in preparation for encryption David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2021-06-11 08:50 +0200
    Re: Wiping an unencrypted SSD in preparation for encryption Reco <recoverym4n@enotuniq.net> - 2021-06-11 08:50 +0200
      Re: Wiping an unencrypted SSD in preparation for encryption David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2021-06-11 15:00 +0200
        Re: Wiping an unencrypted SSD in preparation for encryption Reco <recoverym4n@enotuniq.net> - 2021-06-11 15:10 +0200
          Re: Wiping an unencrypted SSD in preparation for encryption David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2021-06-13 00:00 +0200
      Re: Wiping an unencrypted SSD in preparation for encryption rhkramer@gmail.com - 2021-06-11 17:10 +0200
        Re: Wiping an unencrypted SSD in preparation for encryption Reco <recoverym4n@enotuniq.net> - 2021-06-11 17:20 +0200
    Re: Wiping an unencrypted SSD in preparation for encryption David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2021-06-15 07:10 +0200
      Re: Wiping an unencrypted SSD in preparation for encryption Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2021-06-15 17:00 +0200
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  Re: Wiping an unencrypted SSD in preparation for encryption Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside <debian@polynamaude.com> - 2021-06-11 17:00 +0200
    Re: Wiping an unencrypted SSD in preparation for encryption Reco <recoverym4n@enotuniq.net> - 2021-06-11 17:20 +0200
      Re: Wiping an unencrypted SSD in preparation for encryption Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org> - 2021-06-11 20:40 +0200
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