Questions tagged [atime]
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Can I use grep or strings to find the previous atime of a file still present on my btrfs?
The metadata of this file which resides on my HDD is written by CoW, therefore can I look for it just by using grep or strings, and the filename?
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How useful is it to disable access time logging on SSD and are there disadvantages doing so?
As SSD drives have limited writes, I would like to know whether disabling access time logging still plays a significant role in 2021. Most websites I see on the subject are from 2015 and before, and ...
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rsync keep access time (atime), how?
I am using rsync-3.2.3 on Fedora 33 (GNOME). But how can I keep the access time (atime) for my files and folders? I can only keep the modified time (mtime) with this command: rsync -t
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Problem "atime in future"
I have a problem running Aide. After doing different tasks in the system, most notarius ones were to change user and home name and to change system's date to EST. Then I run Aide and it showed a huge ...
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How to prevent `atime` in Linux from overwriting `Date created` in Windows on NTFS?
From Linux, if I alter files on an NTFS external HD so that I get some specific values for mtime, atime and ctime (readable with the stat command, and with ctime = mtime because one cannot change ...
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chmod without changing stat (atime) of file
i would like to be able to chmod a directory structure without changing the atime of those (files and) directories. if i start out with a file structure like $ tree test/ test/ ├── test1.txt └── ...
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Does Duplicity modify atime when backing up?
My data resides on a SSD and — thanks to re-writes and Write Amplification — any modification of an atime will result in not only the inode being modified, but the whole block that it resides on being ...
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Changing file modification time to access time in bulk
I have a bunch of files in a directory where the modification time was changed (incorrectly) with touch -m The access time of these files is still close enough to what the modification time was, so I'...
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