Changing Creation Date to a Prespecified Date of a File In Unix

monkfan · #1 (**permalink**) 11-28-2006

Dear Expert,

Is there a command to do that in Unix?
In such a way that we don't need to actually "write" or
modified the content.

-- monkfan

blowtorch · #2 (**permalink**) 11-28-2006

There is no such thing as a creation date. You either mean modification date or the access date. And no, while changing either one, the inode is modified, so listing the file with 'ls -lc' will always show up.

vino · #3 (**permalink**) 11-28-2006

I attended an Free and Open Source Software (FOSS.IN) event last weekend. One of the keynotes was on the progress of the ext4 filesystem project. The presenter was mentioning there is a thought on introducing the creation timestamp for the ext4 filesystem.

Who knows ? If you can wait around for sometime, you might get what you are looking for !

matrixmadhan · #4 (**permalink**) 11-28-2006

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One of the keynotes was on the progress of the ext4 filesystem project. The presenter was mentioning there is a thought on introducing the creation timestamp for the ext4 filesystem.

Vino,
I believe ext4 is released on October 26, 2006 by Andrew Mortan as a compatible improvement to ext3.
Still ext4 is backward compatible to ext3.
I could not find anything related to timestamp inclusion with ext3dev.

Do you have any links to the keynotes you had attended?

vino · #5 (**permalink**) 11-28-2006

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Originally Posted by matrixmadhan

I could not find anything related to timestamp inclusion with ext3dev.

I never said it was included. Rather, there is a thought on doing that. Probably it could come out as a patch.

Quote:

Originally Posted by matrixmadhan

Do you have any links to the keynotes you had attended?

Sorry, I dont have any URL to the keynote. Now that you ask, see this http://www.mail-archive.com/linux-ex.../msg00188.html

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