https://github.com/freaky/trim

A tool to TRIM devices in FreeBSD
https://github.com/freaky/trim

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A tool to TRIM devices in FreeBSD

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/freaky/trim
• Owner: Freaky
• Created: 2015-07-15T01:40:50.000Z (almost 11 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2015-07-15T01:44:59.000Z (almost 11 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2025-03-02T20:30:41.084Z (over 1 year ago)
• Language: C
• Size: 113 KB
• Stars: 0
• Watchers: 3
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 0
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  • Readme: README.md

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# trim

TRIM a device in FreeBSD.

## Usage

    trim [device]

## Example

    -# hexdump -C /dev/ada3

    00000000  ce 5e 98 86 b6 67 28 48  e2 66 86 ec e1 e5 6f 0a  |.^...g(H.f....o.|

    ...

    -# trim ada3

    trim 256060514304 bytes from ada3? (yes/no) yes

    -# hexdump -C /dev/ada3

    00000000  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  |................|

    *

## Notes

Use of this software may result in data loss. Hopefully.

It is *not* a tool for TRIMing free space in a filesystem like Linux's `fstrim`.

It is *not* a secure erase tool.  For that use `camcontrol(1)`:

    camcontrol security [device] -s erase -e erase