Comments on: DEBUGFS Command – Show File Creation Times in Linux

By: Lorell Hathcock

Lorell Hathcock — Thu, 16 May 2019 05:10:41 +0000

Does this work on files that were created on a different server but have been copied to the server where I can issue the above commands on CLI?

By: JohannesB

JohannesB — Fri, 01 Mar 2019 15:49:25 +0000

In reply to Peter Leung.

@Peter:

You left out the around the inode number, which causes this ext2_lookup error message, also on ext4

By: Aaron Kili

Aaron Kili — Mon, 07 May 2018 18:46:41 +0000

In reply to pezcurrel.

@pezcurrel

Many thanks for sharing this useful info.

By: pezcurrel

pezcurrel — Sat, 05 May 2018 09:34:39 +0000

As of (at least) e2fsprogs version 1.44.1 there's no need to find out the inode number in advance, you can pass the file path itself omitting the "", like this...

$ sudo debugfs -R 'stat /path/to/file' /dev/sdxX

By: Aaron Kili

Aaron Kili — Thu, 03 May 2018 07:56:48 +0000

In reply to Ievgen Sobko.

@levgen

This is a correct observation, may be the time on the test machine was not correct, we will find more about this, using a new file.