Is date created available?

Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com
Fri Jun 6 23:32:21 UTC 2008


Young wrote:
> In Nautilus 2.22.2 can the creation data for a file be viewed?
> 
> I don't find it available under preferences.
> Is this just a Linux quirk?

The creation date isn't available.  The file system keeps timestamps for 
the last inode change, the last file modification, and the last access 
time.  The last inode change can never be earler than the file 
modification, because setting that timestamp is an inode change.

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   Les Mikesell
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