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How to configure a filesystem+LVM for effective usage of SSD?

ext4 is one of the filesystems recommended for using on SSDs (with a number of built-in techniques and advices how to tune it for better performance and wear-levelling of SSDs). I want to install a ...
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Will formatting my drive TRIM my SSD?

Will a standard fresh linux (Ubuntu 11.10 to be exact) install and drive re-format (full) successfully TRIM my SSD, or do I need to do something extra? I know that ext4 will TRIM blocks on erase ...