fstrim - discard unused blocks on a mounted filesystem
fstrim [-Aa] [-v] MOUNTPOINTOptions you will use
-a, --all- Trim every mounted file system that supports it.
-v, --verbose- Print how many bytes were trimmed.
Gotchas
- On a thin-provisioned VM disk (qcow2) this hands freed space back to the host.
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