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    [–] [email protected] 52 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    I would ask whether you realize you're on a linux community, but you referred to a man page as a wiki article so you are clearly lost.

    The first paragraph past the link is a summary of the function of the program.

    fstrim is used on a mounted filesystem to discard (or "trim") blocks which are not in use by the filesystem. This is useful for solid-state drives (SSDs) and thinly-provisioned storage.

    [–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    I think he is referring to the arch wiki

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

    no it's a manpage