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Linux how to view the initial creation time of the file, I believe that many inexperienced people do not know what to do, so this article summarizes the causes of the problem and solutions, through this article I hope you can solve this problem.

The file creation time in the Linux system is stored in the inode of the ext4 file system. So how do you see when the file was originally created?

Step 1: find the inode file number

First, use the following command on the terminal to find the inode number of any file.

$ls-I / var/log/ secure`13377 / var/log/syslog step 2: find the file creation time (crtime)

After getting the inode number of the file, use the debugfs command with inode number statistics to follow the disk path.

$debugfs-R ``'stat'``/ dev/ sda``1 execution

$debugfs-R 'stat' / dev/sda1 debugfs 1.41.12 (17-May-2010) Inode: 13377 Type: regular Mode: 0600 Flags: 0x80000 Generation: 2326794244 Version: 0x00000000:00000001 User: 0 Group: 0 Size: 223317 File ACL: 0 Directory ACL: 0 Links: 1 Blockcount: 440 Fragment: Address: 0 Number: 0 Size: 0 ctime: 0x5230b7ae:55efa068-Thu Sep 12 00:04:22 atime: 0x5230b7ae:55efa068-Thu Sep 12 00:04:22 2013 mtime: 0x5230b7ae:55efa068-Thu Sep 12 00:04:22 2013 crtime: 0x4eeacc8a:0948eb58-Fri Dec 16 10:13:54 2011 Size of extra inode fields: 28 Extended attributes stored in inode body: selinux = "system_u:object_r:var_log_t:s000" (31) EXTENTS: (0-24): 35008-35032 (25-54): 164224-164253 find the entry for crtime in the output above This is the actual file creation time.

What is Linux system Linux is a free-to-use and free-spread UNIX-like operating system, is a POSIX-based multi-user, multi-task, multi-threaded and multi-CPU operating system, using Linux can run major Unix tools, applications and network protocols.

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