On Sun, 07 Aug 2022 11:37:41 +0930
Tim via users <users@lists.fedoraproject.org> wrote:

> On a couple of my computers using ext4 file systems I get different
> results from the stat command on any file.  One will list a creation
> date, the other has nothing there (for any file).  I don't see any
> special options in fstab, I'm wondering why it behaves this way.
> 
> 
> [tim@rocky ~]$ stat where-do-i-begin.odt 
>   File: ‘where-do-i-begin.odt’
>   Size: 15849         Blocks: 32         IO Block: 4096   regular
> file Device: 803h/2051d       Inode: 5768403     Links: 1
> Access: (0664/-rw-rw-r--)  Uid: ( 1000/     tim)   Gid: ( 1000/
> tim) Context: unconfined_u:object_r:user_home_t:s0
> Access: 2022-06-10 15:35:17.981562395 +0930
> Modify: 2019-11-11 17:49:43.401481919 +1030
> Change: 2019-11-11 17:49:43.401481919 +1030
>  Birth: -
> 
> 
>  

I think this is substantially correct -
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1988565/setting-windows-creation-date-using-posix-api#1988689

as is this:
https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/91197/how-to-find-creation-date-of-file

I think system dependent, not to be counted on.

D


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