Date: Sat, 1 Dec 2018 13:51:36 -0700 From: Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> To: Rebecca Cran <rebecca@bluestop.org> Cc: "freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org" <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org>, ish@amail.plala.or.jp, "freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org" <hackers@freebsd.org>, Ian Lepore <ian@freebsd.org>, Eugene Grosbein <eugen@grosbein.net> Subject: Re: How to use trim command ? Message-ID: <CANCZdfprfi9XLKe5Hh6f6t6ZjCuH=rBMNugTBe5%2B_21B6se9cA@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <5281174.XOh7uYVVfo@photon.int.bluestop.org> References: <20181201.011411.2100982142219259108.ish@amail.plala.or.jp> <1543622218.1860.169.camel@freebsd.org> <f0b6c70d-0184-b4c0-30bc-68f318c52d57@grosbein.net> <5281174.XOh7uYVVfo@photon.int.bluestop.org>
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On Sat, Dec 1, 2018 at 12:50 AM Rebecca Cran via freebsd-hackers < freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org> wrote: > On Friday, 30 November 2018 17:36:01 MST Eugene Grosbein wrote: > > 01.12.2018 6:56, Ian Lepore wrote: > > > newfs destroys data too, cat > /dev/da0 does this too, > > add the name "dd" itself does not imply data destruction. > > > Can you invent better name? > > 'discard'? > That's a good name. trim has the unfortunate collision with the perl 'trim' function and similar things that I didn't think of when I recommended it. It's also nicely technology agnostic. Warner
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