What's the story with TRIM support?

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Published on 2010-11-25T22:41:15Z Indexed on 2012/03/27 5:39 UTC
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The situation with TRIM in Ubuntu has me utterly confused. I don't know whether I need to manually run it or not. Sources I've found are disparate and unclear.

I have Ubuntu 10.04 with latest updates (including kernel 2.6.32-26). I have an Intel X-25M drive with latest firmware, and it is formatted as ext4.

So, does TRIM support run automatically? If not, how do I check if I need to run it, and then how do I run it if necessary?

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