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Old 08-11-2009
Number of files - in start of year
Is there any way to find "Number of files" that exists on my solaris parition in the starting of 2009 year ?

I know ctime or mtime will not help and unix wouldnt store creation time.

Only hope i can see ( and i am not sure if that will help ) is that my system is up from last 2 years without reboot so any place in /proc where i can find this or any other idea ?

- Rajwinder Singh
# 2  
Old 08-12-2009
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Originally Posted by rajwinder
Is there any way to find "Number of files" that exists on my solaris parition in the starting of 2009 year ?
I know ctime or mtime will not help and unix wouldnt store creation time.
But ctime is the creation time. <-- Edit: Disregard this, it's not true, as pointed out by jlliagre
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Originally Posted by rajwinder
Only hope i can see ( and i am not sure if that will help ) is that my system is up from last 2 years without reboot so any place in /proc where i can find this or any other idea ?
If you are asking how to find out how many files existed on the system on Jan 1st 2009, there's no way to tell unless you ran a backup on that day.

Or are you asking something else?
Last edited by Smiling Dragon; 08-13-2009 at 03:38 AM..
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Old 08-12-2009
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Originally Posted by Smiling Dragon
But ctime is the creation time.
It isn't unless the file has never be modified.
"ctime" is defined as the last status change time. The creation time is usually not recorded on typical Unix filesystems, ZFS being an exception.
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Old 08-13-2009
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Originally Posted by jlliagre
It isn't unless the file has never be modified.
"ctime" is defined as the last status change time. The creation time is usually not recorded on typical Unix filesystems, ZFS being an exception.
Ooh, you're absolutely right. No idea what I was thinking there sorry! Smilie
# 5  
Old 08-14-2009
Thanks for replies guys ! was just curious as this sound like a pretty simple thing but somehow except backups i cant see any solution
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Old 08-15-2009
A ZFS snapshot would also allow to answer to that question. Quite similar to a backup though.
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