On Thu, Jan 16, 2020 at 11:20:10AM +0000, gritzmann wrote:
> Hi,
>
> How do I change the birth time of a file? `touch -acm -d "1980-01-01
> 00:00:00" myfile` changes only the access, modify and change times.
>
> `stat myfile` returns `10 215746 -rw-r--r-- 1 me me 0 0 "Jan 1 00:00:00
> 1980" "Jan 1 00:00:00 1980" "Jan 16 13:00:33 2020" 16384 0 0 myfile`
>
> Thanks!
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Change time != creation time. There is no such thing as creation time
in unix.
The change time (c_time in struct stat) cannot be explicitly set by
any API and is maintained by the kernel.
-Otto
