<![CDATA[unable to enable trim?]]>I just rebuilt my firewall and I'm going through a few things and thought I'd check to make sure trim is enabled since fstrim obviously doesn't work so I can't just add a cron job.

/sbin/tunefs -p / gives me the following...

tunefs: POSIX.1e ACLs: (-a)                                disabled
tunefs: NFSv4 ACLs: (-N)                                   disabled
tunefs: MAC multilabel: (-l)                               disabled
tunefs: soft updates: (-n)                                 enabled
tunefs: soft update journaling: (-j)                       enabled
tunefs: gjournal: (-J)                                     disabled
tunefs: trim: (-t)                                         disabled
tunefs: maximum blocks per file in a cylinder group: (-e)  4096
tunefs: average file size: (-f)                            16384
tunefs: average number of files in a directory: (-s)       64
tunefs: minimum percentage of free space: (-m)             8%
tunefs: space to hold for metadata blocks: (-k)            6408
tunefs: optimization preference: (-o)                      time
tunefs: volume label: (-L)

My drive is a SATA SSD and trim is disabled.

I tried the option found here
https://forum.netgate.com/topic/87458/2-2-4-and-how-i-enabled-trim
BUT booting from a bootable USB installer goes straight to the installer.
I'm running 2.5.2-Release. How do I enable trim?

running tunefs -t enable gives me.....

tunefs: /dev/gptid/45501687-7d62-11ec-9295-90e2ba8c936c is not clean - run fsck.

running fsck comes back with everything clean, reboot confirms.

Any ideas?

]]>https://forum.netgate.com/topic/169422/unable-to-enable-trimRSS for NodeSun, 12 Apr 2026 10:12:22 GMTThu, 27 Jan 2022 13:59:24 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to unable to enable trim? on Thu, 27 Jan 2022 14:18:23 GMT]]>@gertjan Guess somehow I missed that.
Tried again successfully.
Thanks!

]]>https://forum.netgate.com/post/1022086https://forum.netgate.com/post/1022086Thu, 27 Jan 2022 14:18:23 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to unable to enable trim? on Thu, 27 Jan 2022 14:06:31 GMT]]>@visseroth said in unable to enable trim?:

BUT booting from a bootable USB installer goes straight to the installer.
I'm running 2.5.2-Release. How do I enable trim?

You should see the big pfsense ASCI logo showing up while it's booting.
That's the moment you can "press a key" (I don't remember the screen) to boot into console single user mode.

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