Re: Solid State Drive BIOS update and Memory Cell Clearing

[Leslie S Satenstein <lsatenstein@yahoo.com>]

 

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From: Florian Reitmeir <florian@reitmeir.org>
To: debian-laptop@lists.debian.org
Sent: Monday, December 15, 2014 4:41 AM
Subject: Re: Solid State Drive BIOS update and Memory Cell Clearing

Hi,

On 12/14/14 21:05, Michael wrote:
> Someone gots me a 4y old Lenovo Thinkpad X301 with a 64G Samsung SSD and i'd like to give it a try and follow this instruction
>  https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/SSD_Memory_Cell_Clearing

i would just reinstall, and the use "fstrim" to clear the rest of the drive.



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Florian Reitmeir
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Yes, that is what you should do. If you first clear out the partitions, and then run fstrim, it will clear out all recovered filespace.