I am attempting to enable TRIM on my main install to extend the life of my SSD. I'm using an external drive (plugged in with USB) because I just had one lying around. The drive has TRIM support. I've looked through the Arch wiki and elsewhere, but just can't get it to work.
Output of inxi -Faz:
System: Kernel: 5.14.8-zen1-1-zen x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 11.1.0
parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/@/boot/vmlinuz-linux-zen root=UUID=f1edd825-d641-4954-8d0d-f00f63da3389 rw rootflags=subvol=@ quiet cryptdevice=UUID=0f3bffe8-12fe-4da3-b170-086236fd31ee:luks-0f3bffe8-12fe-4da3-b170-086236fd31ee:allow-discards root=/dev/mapper/luks-0f3bffe8-12fe-4da3-b170-086236fd31ee splash nvidia-drm.modeset=1 rd.udev.log_priority=3 vt.global_cursor_default=0 systemd.unified_cgroup_hierarchy=1 loglevel=3
Desktop: KDE Plasma 5.22.5 tk: Qt 5.15.2 info: latte-dock wm: kwin_x11 vt: 1 dm: SDDM Distro: Garuda Linux
base: Arch Linux
Machine: Type: Desktop Mobo: Micro-Star model: B550-A PRO (MS-7C56) v: 2.0 serial: <filter> UEFI: American Megatrends LLC.
v: A.72 date: 06/22/2021
CPU: Info: 8-Core model: AMD Ryzen 7 3700X bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Zen 2 family: 17 (23) model-id: 71 (113)
stepping: 0 microcode: 8701021 cache: L2: 4 MiB
flags: avx avx2 lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 svm bogomips: 115202
Speed: 2313 MHz min/max: 2200/3600 MHz boost: enabled Core speeds (MHz): 1: 2313 2: 2102 3: 2056 4: 2054 5: 2054
6: 3600 7: 2053 8: 2056 9: 2120 10: 2173 11: 2056 12: 3599 13: 2051 14: 2055 15: 3606 16: 2054
Vulnerabilities: Type: itlb_multihit status: Not affected
Type: l1tf status: Not affected
Type: mds status: Not affected
Type: meltdown status: Not affected
Type: spec_store_bypass mitigation: Speculative Store Bypass disabled via prctl and seccomp
Type: spectre_v1 mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization
Type: spectre_v2 mitigation: Full AMD retpoline, IBPB: conditional, STIBP: conditional, RSB filling
Type: srbds status: Not affected
Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected
Graphics: Device-1: NVIDIA GP108 [GeForce GT 1030] vendor: Micro-Star MSI driver: nvidia v: 470.74
alternate: nouveau,nvidia_drm bus-ID: 2b:00.0 chip-ID: 10de:1d01 class-ID: 0300
Device-2: Razer USA Razer Kiyo Pro type: USB driver: snd-usb-audio,uvcvideo bus-ID: 4-1:2 chip-ID: 1532:0e05
class-ID: 0102
Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.13 compositor: kwin_x11 driver: loaded: nvidia display-ID: :0 screens: 1
Screen-1: 0 s-res: 3840x2160 s-dpi: 162 s-size: 602x341mm (23.7x13.4") s-diag: 692mm (27.2")
Monitor-1: DP-0 res: 3840x2160 hz: 60 dpi: 163 size: 597x336mm (23.5x13.2") diag: 685mm (27")
OpenGL: renderer: NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030/PCIe/SSE2 v: 4.6.0 NVIDIA 470.74 direct render: Yes
Audio: Device-1: NVIDIA GP108 High Definition Audio vendor: Micro-Star MSI driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 2b:00.1
chip-ID: 10de:0fb8 class-ID: 0403
Device-2: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Starship/Matisse HD Audio vendor: Micro-Star MSI driver: snd_hda_intel
v: kernel bus-ID: 2d:00.4 chip-ID: 1022:1487 class-ID: 0403
Device-3: Razer USA Razer Kiyo Pro type: USB driver: snd-usb-audio,uvcvideo bus-ID: 4-1:2 chip-ID: 1532:0e05
class-ID: 0102
Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.14.8-zen1-1-zen running: yes
Sound Server-2: JACK v: 1.9.19 running: no
Sound Server-3: PulseAudio v: 15.0 running: no
Sound Server-4: PipeWire v: 0.3.38 running: yes
Network: Device-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet vendor: Micro-Star MSI driver: r8169 v: kernel
port: f000 bus-ID: 2a:00.0 chip-ID: 10ec:8168 class-ID: 0200
IF: enp42s0 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
Bluetooth: Device-1: ASUSTek ASUS USB-BT500 type: USB driver: btusb v: 0.8 bus-ID: 3-2.1:4 chip-ID: 0b05:190e class-ID: e001
serial: <filter>
Report: bt-adapter ID: hci0 rfk-id: 0 state: up address: <filter>
Drives: Local Storage: total: 704.24 GiB used: 71.5 GiB (10.2%)
SMART Message: Unable to run smartctl. Root privileges required.
ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 maj-min: 259:0 vendor: Samsung model: SSD 970 EVO 500GB size: 465.76 GiB block-size:
physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 31.6 Gb/s lanes: 4 type: SSD serial: <filter> rev: 2B2QEXE7 temp: 28.9 C
scheme: GPT
ID-2: /dev/sda maj-min: 8:0 type: USB vendor: Silicon Power model: SPCC Sol id State Dis size: 238.47 GiB
block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B type: N/A serial: <filter> rev: T091 scheme: GPT
Partition: ID-1: / raw-size: 238.18 GiB size: 238.18 GiB (100.00%) used: 53.06 GiB (22.3%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/dm-0
maj-min: 254:0 mapped: luks-0f3bffe8-12fe-4da3-b170-086236fd31ee
ID-2: /home raw-size: 238.18 GiB size: 238.18 GiB (100.00%) used: 53.06 GiB (22.3%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/dm-0
maj-min: 254:0 mapped: luks-0f3bffe8-12fe-4da3-b170-086236fd31ee
ID-3: /var/log raw-size: 238.18 GiB size: 238.18 GiB (100.00%) used: 53.06 GiB (22.3%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/dm-0
maj-min: 254:0 mapped: luks-0f3bffe8-12fe-4da3-b170-086236fd31ee
ID-4: /var/tmp raw-size: 238.18 GiB size: 238.18 GiB (100.00%) used: 53.06 GiB (22.3%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/dm-0
maj-min: 254:0 mapped: luks-0f3bffe8-12fe-4da3-b170-086236fd31ee
Swap: Kernel: swappiness: 133 (default 60) cache-pressure: 100 (default)
ID-1: swap-1 type: zram size: 15.55 GiB used: 2 MiB (0.0%) priority: 100 dev: /dev/zram0
Sensors: System Temperatures: cpu: 50.1 C mobo: N/A gpu: nvidia temp: 43 C
Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A gpu: nvidia fan: 35%
Info: Processes: 409 Uptime: 13m wakeups: 0 Memory: 15.55 GiB used: 4.75 GiB (30.6%) Init: systemd v: 249 tool: systemctl
Compilers: gcc: 11.1.0 clang: 12.0.1 Packages: pacman: 1559 lib: 471 Shell: fish v: 3.3.1 default: Bash v: 5.1.8
running-in: code inxi: 3.3.06
As you can see allow-discards is set as a kernel parameter. The discard option is also in fstab, crypttab, and I've enabled it in /etc/lvm/lvm.conf.
Output of lsblk --discard /dev/sda:
NAME DISC-ALN DISC-GRAN DISC-MAX DISC-ZERO
sda 0 512B 4G 0
|-sda2 0 512B 4G 0
`-sda3 0 512B 4G 0
`-luks-0f3bffe8-12fe-4da3-b170-086236fd31ee 0 0B 0B 0
As you can see discard is in fact working on every partition except the LUKS mapper, I don't have anything else to try at this point so I came to the forums.