Arch Linux - Wichtige doings nach der Installation

TRIM filesystem timer to enhance SSD life span (siehe auch SSD Lebensspanne erhöhen)

Run following command to activate FS trim systemd timer.

sudo systemctl enable --now fstrim.timer

NTP time sync

1.) Open up /etc/systemd/timesyncd.conf

2.) Change lines to look like this...

[Time]
NTP=0.arch.pool.ntp.org
FallbackNTP=0.pool.ntp.org 1.pool.ntp.org 0.fr.pool.ntp.org  1.arch.pool.ntp.org 2.arch.pool.ntp.org 3.arch.pool.ntp.org
RootDistanceMaxSec=5
PollIntercalMinSec=32
PollIntervalMaxSec=2048
ConnectionRetrySec=30
SaveIntervalSec=60

3.) Enable systemd-timesyncd

sudo systemctl enable --now systemd-timesyncd

Regenerate mirrorlist

1.) Install reflector package

sudo pacman -S reflector

2.) Run reflector with desired options, e.g.

sudo reflector --country=germany --protocol=https --save=/etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist