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Re:Is sequential IO dead in the era of the NVMe drive? by mindslight on Tuesday May 09, 2023 @07:07PM (#35881527)
Just make another partition for the unused space, and run blkdiscard on it?
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Re:Is sequential IO dead in the era of the NVMe drive? by renonce on Wednesday May 10, 2023 @12:51PM (#35889994)
Right, and you can use fdisk and gdisk to see the partition table and determine the offsets
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Re:Is sequential IO dead in the era of the NVMe drive? by oakwhiz on Wednesday May 10, 2023 @02:33PM (#35891464)
I might put together a script for that because of the danger of making a mistake on a live system.
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