Finding the date on which a Fedora 23 was installed on a given machine

Jon LaBadie jonfu at jgcomp.com
Sat Jan 16 21:31:24 UTC 2016


On Sat, Jan 16, 2016 at 09:07:52PM +0000, Andrew R Paterson wrote:
> On Saturday 16 Jan 2016 02:19:59 Tim wrote:
> >  --- snip ---
> > 
> > Obviously most of that is pre-release, but some of it is post.
> How about when the root filesystem was created?
> ls -alct /|tail -1|awk '{print $6, $7, $8}'
> Rgds
> Andy

Simplified as "ls -lcd /"

However, "c" is not "C"reate time, but inode "C"hange time.
Add or remove and entry from / or modify permissions or
owner/group and "c" time is updated.

jl
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Jon H. LaBadie                  jonfu at jgcomp.com


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