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On Thu, 13 Sep 2012, Kay Sievers wrote:

> Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2012 00:43:01 +0200
> From: Kay Sievers <kay@vrfy.org>
> To: Lukas Czerner <lczerner@redhat.com>
> Cc: util-linux@vger.kernel.org, kzak@redhat.com
> Subject: Re: [PATCH] blkdiscard: add new command
> 
> On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 11:49 PM, Lukas Czerner <lczerner@redhat.com> wrote:
> > blkdiscard is used to discard device sectors. This is useful for
> > solid-state drivers (SSDs) and thinly-provisioned storage. Unlike
> > fstrim this command is used directly on the block device.
> 
> Should this maybe live in blockdev(8)?
> 
> It's kind of unfortunate to create standalone tools for every other
> rather exotic block device feature.

Discard is hardly exotic feature nowadays :). But anyway, I was not aware of
blockdev(8) and indeed it seems like a better place to put this
functionality. I'll look into it.

Thanks!
-Lukas

> 
> Thanks,
> Kay
>