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How to TRIM the whole partition in FreeBSD to save space in VirtualBox

I am running FreeBSD 11 amd64 in VirtualBox 5.1.12. I have enabled TRIM in VirtualBox (nonrotational="true" discard="true"): <StorageControllers> <StorageController name="SCSI" ...
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VirtualBox and SSD's TRIM command support

I am aware of the huge number of posts on the internet saying that this would not work and why and I really spent days looking for the solutions months ago but I've found yesterday some tips how to "...
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TRIM High level or low level? and Running a VM on a ssd

Is TRIM high level (such as deleting files within the operating system) or low level (it monitors all disk activity). For instance if I run a VM within my windows 7 host, will the data deleted and ...
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VM Filesystem on SSD

If I run a Virtual Machine, and I enabled all SSD related tweaks on the Host machine (disabled journalling, enabled trim, etc) do I still need to apply the same tweaks for the Guest machine? I could ...
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Throwing TRIM support in Ubuntu guest at Win7-Virtualbox host

I have VirtualBox 4.1.14 on Windows 7 as host, and Ubuntu server 11.10 as guest. System was installed at traditional HDD years ago (and upgraded later), but now it's at SSD as expanding drive. There ...
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