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Date:      Sun, 2 Dec 2018 00:17:47 +0000
From:      James Wright <james.wright@jigsawdezign.com>
To:        Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>
Cc:        Rebecca Cran <rebecca@bluestop.org>, ish@amail.plala.or.jp, "freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org" <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org>, "freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org" <hackers@freebsd.org>, Eugene Grosbein <eugen@grosbein.net>, Ian Lepore <ian@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: How to use trim command ?
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  Borrowing somewhat from PostreSQL, how about something like "vacuum"?



> On 1 Dec 2018, at 20:51, Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> wrote:
> 
> On Sat, Dec 1, 2018 at 12:50 AM Rebecca Cran via freebsd-hackers <
> freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org> wrote:
> 
>> On Friday, 30 November 2018 17:36:01 MST Eugene Grosbein wrote:
>>> 01.12.2018 6:56, Ian Lepore wrote:
>> 
>>> newfs destroys data too, cat > /dev/da0 does this too,
>>> add the name "dd" itself does not imply data destruction.
>> 
>>> Can you invent better name?
>> 
>> 'discard'?
>> 
> 
> That's a good name. trim has the unfortunate collision with the perl 'trim'
> function and similar things that I didn't think of when I recommended it.
> It's also nicely technology agnostic.
> 
> Warner
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