[Techtalk] file creation date

Little Girl littlergirl at gmail.com
Sun Apr 8 18:14:36 UTC 2012


Hey there,

Miriam English wrote:

> Whew! Hours later I finally found what I was wanting. (+10 points
> for perseverance, but -10 points for distractability. I was
> supposed to be writing today. Damn!)

You'll get to it. (:
 
> So, it looks like I'll be moving to ext4. For you lucky folks who
> are already using a recent version of Ubuntu you will probably find
> it formatted your disks as ext4 by default.

I'm using it over here.
 
> Because the standard Linux tools can't see creation date yet you
> need a bit of a hack to get at it on ext4. First see if the device
> is actually formatted as ext4 by typing:

[SNIP]

Very nice, but I'll wait until they make it so we can view it with
stat and modify it with touch. (:

-- 
Little Girl

There is no spoon.


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