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Old 06-09-2015
I wonder if /etc/cron.hourly/ is a magic place where executables are run once an hour by root without a crontab entry - and without arguments.
If you have a crontab entry they are run twice...
BTW the man page for fstrim recommemds to run it weekly.
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# 9  
Old 06-10-2015
Awsome!

Just adding the absolute path works, in this case /sbin/fstrim on Debian.
Thanks for every-bodies help.

MIG: After further investigation, it does indeed seem that it is the case
that cron runs scripts at the appropriate named folder times. I eventually
moved all script files to a different location.

At the moment I'm experimenting with the frequency of calls to trim the
mount points. On occasions, it's releasing the entire capacity of the
partition i.e. 128GB. At the moment it is an empty partition and unused.
No idea where it is getting 128GB.

Quick note on dash shell... A lot is missing from it in the name of speed
and security and it requires a lot of experimenting to get your scripts
to work.
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