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Old 04-23-2007, 12:50 AM   #1
cjagdish69
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Question File Creation date & time in Red Hat


I have created a file somewhat in 2005. Now i want the exact date and time of creation of that file. How can I get the same ?

I tried the "stat" command but it gives me only the access,change & modified date & time.

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Old 04-23-2007, 01:23 AM   #2
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Searching from Google, I stumbled across this (copied the "interesting" part of it, found below):

http://www.lugod.org/mailinglists/ar.../msg00013.html

Quote:
ext2, ext3 and reiser don't keep track of a file's creation time. what
people call "creation time" is (as you point out) something completely
different.

a better name for "creation time" is "the last time at which the inode
was modified". so rather than keeping track of when the file was
created, it keeps track of things like:

* last date the file was mv'd
* last date a file's attr was changed
* last date the file's perms were changed
* last date the file's ownership or grownership was changed

stuff like that.

sorry to say, if you want to keep track of a file's original creation
date, you'll need to keep track of that yourself.

Last edited by b0uncer; 04-23-2007 at 01:30 AM.
 
  


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