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daemoon

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Registered: 2013-02-21

Posts: 7

[SOLVED] fstrim fails on LUKS-device

Hello,

today I've encountered a strange issue when installing Arch to my new SSD. I've read a lot about the options you have to set to enable TRIM and tried to configure my system according to these tutorials.

First of all the error:

# fstrim -v /home
fstrim: /home: FITRIM ioctl failed: Operation not supported.

These are my devices:

# blkid
/dev/sda1: UUID="d6e350c2-3b85-4cc8-8802-326f310912d9" TYPE="ext4" 
/dev/sda2: UUID="8c3ea242-7b75-41d2-93f9-75b3c65aaa74" TYPE="crypto_LUKS" 
/dev/mapper/home: UUID="a6419946-da6f-4ea7-9108-e882fb322fd4" TYPE="ext4"

"/dev/sda1" is the unencrypted root filesystem, "/dev/sda2" is the encrypted LUKS-device for /dev/mapper/home, which is mounted in /home.

I've added the mapped device to my /etc/fstab with the "discard" option:

/dev/sda1           	/         	ext4      	rw,discard,noatime	 0 1
UUID=a6419946-da6f-4ea7-9108-e882fb322fd4	/home	ext4	rw,discard,noatime	0	1

Then I configured this boot option line for GRUB to enable the discard option and updated the grub.cfg, of course:

linux 	/boot/vmlinuz-linux root=UUID=d6e350c2-3b85-4cc8-8802-326f310912d9 ro  cryptdevice=/dev/sda2:home:allow-discards root_trim=yes quiet

Finally I enabled discard in /etc/crypttab:

home    UUID=8c3ea242-7b75-41d2-93f9-75b3c65aaa74       none    luks,discard

To realize these changes at the next reboot I also made a new initcpio with

# mkinitpcio -p linux

Having then rebooted I tried whether I was successful with

# dmsetup table /dev/mapper/home --showkeys

.

Some tutorials told me that there had to be "allow_discards" but there wasn't. I assume that I have forgotten something and TRIM doesn't work as a result.
Thank you in advance.

Last edited by daemoon (2013-08-11 12:02:01)

cfr

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From: Cymru

Registered: 2011-11-27

Posts: 7,156

Re: [SOLVED] fstrim fails on LUKS-device

Not sure but you are trying to apply allow-discards to the physical partition (/dev/sda2) rather than the mapped device, right? Whereas the wiki does it the other way - at least the example at https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/LU … _.28SSD.29 suggests that.

Note that I have no idea if this matters.

I can tell you that the final figure on your fstab line for /home should be 2 rather than 1 but that is not the cause of your problem. Also, if you have the fsck hook in initramfs, you should change ro to rw on grub's kernel command line. If you don't have the hook, you should leave it as is.

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daemoon

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Registered: 2013-02-21

Posts: 7

Re: [SOLVED] fstrim fails on LUKS-device

Unfortunately this was no use, fstrim still returns the same error. But thank you very much for your advices!

h00ver

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Registered: 2013-08-08

Posts: 4

Re: [SOLVED] fstrim fails on LUKS-device

Trim requires root-rights, try:

sudo fstrim -v /home

65kid

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From: Germany

Registered: 2011-01-26

Posts: 663

Re: [SOLVED] fstrim fails on LUKS-device

the crypttab option is "allow-discards", not "discard" (see man page ).

Last edited by 65kid (2013-08-08 16:27:06)

daemoon

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Registered: 2013-02-21

Posts: 7

Re: [SOLVED] fstrim fails on LUKS-device

Thank you very much, 65kid! Somehow I got confused about this. I'm glad it works now.