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I had to delete both the previously created fstrim.service and fstrim.timer files and recreate using nano - only then was I able to enable fstrim.timer. One of the two were corrupted.

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Quote from vpeter

There were error Unit and Description were on same line. Must be on separate lines

Code

[Unit]
Description=Run fstrim on boot and weekly afterwards
.................

Unit and Description were not on the same line. Still doesn't work.

OK - I was able to edit and commit the files and test it, however, when I went to enable fstrim.timer, I received the following error:

"LibreELEC:~/.config/system.d # systemctl enable fstrim.timer
Failed to enable unit: File fstrim.timer: Bad message"

Quote from Iridium

I don't have an X86 machine running LE but this *should* work.

Create in /storage/.config/system.d

fstrim.service

Code

[Unit]
Description=Run fstrim on all applicable drives

[Service]
User=root
Type=oneshot
ExecStart=/usr/sbin/fstrim -av

fstrim.timer

Code

[Unit] Description=Run fstrim on boot and weekly afterwards

[Timer]
OnBootSec=15min
OnUnitActiveSec=1w 

[Install]
WantedBy=timers.target

Check that is works:

systemctl start fstrim.service

If happy: Enable it

systemctl enable fstrim.timer

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When I went to check that it works, I received the following error: "LibreELEC:~/.config/system.d # systemctl start fstrim.service
Failed to start fstrim.service: Unit fstrim.service has a bad unit file setting.
See system logs and 'systemctl status fstrim.service' for details."

Quote from Iridium

I assume you mean TRIM as in fstrim to "clean" SSD's.

You can use CRON with crontab -e or use a systemd timer and service

Can you provide me with instructions on how to do this?

I'm a former openELEC user who has been using LibreELEC for the past year and I'm very impressed at LibreELEC's features, stability and pace of new version releases. I would like to know if anyone out there knows how to set up a Periodic TRIM Cron Job for an Intel-based build of LibreELEC.

Thanking you all in advance.

MINIX NGC-1 (Intel-based)