Does the the internal memory of the TX2 (running L4T28.1) automatically trim? I took an image of my TX2 via
sudo ./flash.sh -r -k APP -G system.img jetson-tx2 mmcblk0p1
and to my surprise the resulting image was about 26GB even though only about 13 GB on the device was used. I issued the trim command:
sudo fstrim --all
which took about 10 seconds or so to complete. I took the image of the TX2 again and this time it was the expected 13 GB.
This got me thinking that I may be unexpectedly having slower than optimal disk write speeds during performance critical tests. It appears you can see if your ssd supports automatically TRIM by
hdparm -I /dev/mmcblk0
however on the TX2 I get the result:
/dev/mmcblk0:
HDIO_DRIVE_CMD(identify) failed: Invalid argument
I’ve set up a cron job to run it once a day (at midnight) but am curious if there is a better way.