Re: Orphaned Inode Problem
On Wed, Feb 21, 2024 at 12:00:17PM +0100, Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote:
> Hi,
>
> did you take a look at the smartctl output?
>
> Somewhere I read, for maintainance of an SSD all it's cells should be read
> from time to time like this
>
> sudo dd if=/dev/DEVICE of=/dev/null bs=8M status=progress
Where did you read that? That seems like a huge waste of time.
>
> where device is something like sda or nvme0n1, especially if it was switched
> off for a longer period. At least, it shows the current read performance of
> the device.
> An SSD should regularly be trimmed, if in use. This is to assist it's wear
> leveling process.
>
If you should manually kick off trim is a hotly debated issue.
It mainly depends on the use of the drive.
In most cases however do not alter any of how the system was install by
your friendly installer.
> What's your opinion?
How much time do you have :)
-H
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