[mdlug] MSI Wind SSD Upgrade Question

[Brandon]

That was the base install, back when Dell was first offering Ubuntu as a
ground breaking alternative to Windows. Rest assured, these machines have
had some variant of Linux on them for years now: Debian at the moment but
also Mint/Xandros/Ubuntu in the past. I don't have experience with SSDs
though; it looks like as long as I install as Ext4 I can enable TRIM in
/etc/fstab:

"To enable TRIM support then add the *“discard” *mount option to
*/etc/fstab*: change the default *“errors=remount-ro”* into
*“errors=remount-ro,discard”*. Reboot and you’re done."
http://visei.com/2011/08/how-to-enable-trim-for-ssds-in-debian-6-0-squeeze/

Is there anything else I'd need to do?

On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 8:14 PM, A. Zimmer <andrew.zimmer at comcast.net>
wrote:

> On Tue, 11 Nov 2014 10:51:03 -0500
> Brandon <bfotiu at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >
> > I have two MSI Wind U100 Netbooks that I'm considering upgrading with SSD
> > ...
> > Operating System Windows XP Home Edition SP3 ...
> >
>
> What does this have to do with Linux?
>
> Anyway, to effectively utilize an SSD the TRIM command is recommended
> to communicate information about empty pages to the SSD (a form of
> garbage collection).
>
> Linux supports TRIM on the Ext4 and Btrfs file systems and has done
> so for a considerable time period.
>
> Microsh*t Windows XP does not support TRIM, and later Microsh*t OS's
> only support TRIM in a limited capacity.
>
> So this thread, by being anti-Microsh*t, can be considered pro-Linux.
>
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