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Re: Extract "Last checked" from extX filesystem

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On 2013-04-23, J G Miller <miller@yoyo.ORG> wrote:
> On Tuesday, April 23rd, 2013, at 18:55:05h +0100, Richard Kettlewell observed:
>
>> That???s a good answer.
>
> Well the probability was that one day I would eventually post
> a good answer to something  ;)
>
>> Alternatively one could use the e2fsprogs API,
>
> Now that is an even better answer.
>
> And the API can either be obtained from an e2fslibs-dev
> package or at
>
>    <http://e2fsprogs.sourceforge.NET>
>
> I did previously have a look on CPAN to see if anybody had done
> anything in Perl (did I type it properly this time? ;+])
> but the cupboard was bare.
>
>> Last checked:             Sat Aug  4 18:05:18 2012
>> $ perl -le 'print scalar localtime 1344099918'
>> Sat Aug  4 18:05:18 2012
>
> Is it not advisable to fsck a file system at least
> every 3-6 months, or is that just an urban legend?

If the physical disk that contains the filesystem is powered on
for about 15 minutes every three weeks, and one file is written
and then read back out, it could probably go a little longer than
that.

-- 
Robert Riches
spamtrap42@jacob21819.net
(Yes, that is one of my email addresses.)

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Extract "Last checked" from extX filesystem Vilmos Soti <vilmos@soti.ca> - 2013-04-22 13:53 -0700
  Re: Extract "Last checked" from extX filesystem Bit Twister <BitTwister@mouse-potato.com> - 2013-04-22 21:53 +0000
    Re: Extract "Last checked" from extX filesystem "Chris F.A. Johnson" <cfajohnson@gmail.com> - 2013-04-22 18:11 -0400
      Re: Extract "Last checked" from extX filesystem Bit Twister <BitTwister@mouse-potato.com> - 2013-04-22 22:35 +0000
        Re: Extract "Last checked" from extX filesystem "Chris F.A. Johnson" <cfajohnson@gmail.com> - 2013-04-23 03:31 -0400
          Re: Extract "Last checked" from extX filesystem gazelle@shell.xmission.com (Kenny McCormack) - 2013-04-23 08:29 +0000
            Re: Extract "Last checked" from extX filesystem Bit Twister <BitTwister@mouse-potato.com> - 2013-04-23 12:19 +0000
          Re: Extract "Last checked" from extX filesystem Bit Twister <BitTwister@mouse-potato.com> - 2013-04-23 12:01 +0000
  Re: Extract "Last checked" from extX filesystem J G Miller <miller@yoyo.ORG> - 2013-04-22 21:55 +0000
    Re: Extract "Last checked" from extX filesystem Richard Kettlewell <rjk@greenend.org.uk> - 2013-04-23 18:55 +0100
      Re: Extract "Last checked" from extX filesystem J G Miller <miller@yoyo.ORG> - 2013-04-23 19:23 +0000
        Re: Extract "Last checked" from extX filesystem Robert Riches <spamtrap42@jacob21819.net> - 2013-04-24 04:18 +0000
        Re: Extract "Last checked" from extX filesystem Richard Kettlewell <rjk@greenend.org.uk> - 2013-04-24 08:53 +0100
  Re: Extract "Last checked" from extX filesystem Vilmos Soti <vilmos@soti.ca> - 2013-04-23 13:21 -0700
    Re: Extract "Last checked" from extX filesystem Bit Twister <BitTwister@mouse-potato.com> - 2013-04-23 21:25 +0000
  Re: Extract "Last checked" from extX filesystem Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2013-04-25 16:33 +0200

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