| From: Russell via talk <talk@gtalug.org> | swapon, --discard[=policy] Enable swap discards, if the swap backing | device supports the discard or trim operation. Thanks. Interesting information (that I've trimmed). "discard" is the SCSI term for what ATA calls "trim". I have never addressed this. Apparently the default behaviour looks OK. | Black friday happened yesterday on a Monday (go figure) No, these are the pre-Black-Friday offers. BF is coming the day after US Thanksgiving (this Thursday). "Cyber Monday" is the Monday after that. I'm getting a lot of ads. | and my Newegg | cart dropped my CPU choice as N/A, also Amazon refunded my 3TB drive | choice, also probably N/A. Carts are usually time-limited. In fact, until you "buy", they can disappear. Or worse, as you've found, they can even back out of a sale that you have already concluded (but that's not as routine). Was the drive "sold by amazon" or another party? Places to look online for CPUs include Mike's, Canada Computers, Memory Express, Newegg.ca, Amazon.ca. pcpartpicker probably does that but doesn't always know about sales right away. Sometimes you need to look at the ads to find the deal. | Sometimes I install three or four times until I'm satisfied with the | balance of a partitioning scheme. That's usually on reclaimed or RMA new | old stock. I'm not sure that I want to format and reformat a new SSD | that way, so I think I'd like to try and get this one up with optimal | housekeeping on the first go, if possible, so any comments are most | helpful. blkdiscard(8) looks useful. You could apply it to the whole disk before you start (re-)partitioning. mkfs.ext4 has a "discard" option that defaults on. So maybe everything "just works".