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Why do . and .. have a file size of 4 kB and 12 kB, respectively? [duplicate]
As displayed by ls -al, for example:
drwxr-xr-x 9 jb jb 4.0K Mar 8 18:05 ./
drwx------ 49 jb jb 12K Mar 17 14:15 ../
I assume this is the minimum amount of space required to store the inode's ...
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Birth is empty on ext4
I was just reading up on the Birth section of stat and it appears ext4 should support it, but even a file I just created leaves it empty.
~ % touch test ...
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file block size - difference between stat and ls
I've noticed that when I do a:
ls -ls file
It provides block count, say 8 blocks.
When I do:
stat file
I notice that the block count is 16, twice the number given by ls.
The block size on my ...
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When was `relatime` made the default?
What is the first Linux kernel release to set relatime as the default mount option?
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Change file creation time on a FAT filesystem
I need a way to change the creation time of a file on a mounted FAT32 volume. I have to do that because my MP3 player will only read files sorted by this creation time.
If I can find a way to set the ...
