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How to find when filesystem was created

Some time the system admin may want to maintain a record when the filesystem is created and when the operating system is installed. The dumpe2fs will help you to find when the filesystem is created and from tat you can conclude when your operating system was installed?

Fdisk command will list all the device information

 # fdisk -l

Syntax to find when your filesystem was created

 # dumpe2fs -h /dev/DEVICE | grep 'created'

Example to find when the operating system was installed.

 # dumpe2fs -h /dev/sda7 | grep 'created'

  OUTPUT:
  dumpe2fs 1.41.3 (12-Oct-2008)
  Filesystem created:       Thu May 21 01:53:01 2009
        
    
  
    
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