For what it's worth I was feeling pedantic so wrote a bash wrapper around stat to silently support crtime using debugfs to fetch it from an underlying ext4 filesystem if available. I hope it's robust. Find it here:

https://github.com/bernd-wechner/Linux-Tools/blob/master/xstat

Note that a fix is ostensibly on the todo list for Linux as documented in that script. So this wrapper has a nominal lifespan only until that is done and is more an exercise in what's doable.

For what it's worth I was feeling pedantic so wrote a bash wrapper around stat to silently support crtime using debugfs to fetch it from an underlying ext4 filesystem if available. I hope it's robust. Find it here.

Note that a fix is ostensibly on the todo list for Linux as documented in that script. So this wrapper has a nominal lifespan only until that is done and is more an exercise in what's doable.

For what it's worth I was feeling pedantic so write a bash wrapper around stat to silently support crtime using debugfs to fetch it from an underlying ext4 filesystem if available. I hope it's robust. Find it here:

https://github.com/bernd-wechner/Linux-Tools/blob/master/xstat

Note that a fix is ostensibly on the todo list for Linux as documented in that script. So this wrapper has a nominal lifespan only until that is done and is more an exercise in what's doable.

For what it's worth I was feeling pedantic so wrote a bash wrapper around stat to silently support crtime using debugfs to fetch it from an underlying ext4 filesystem if available. I hope it's robust. Find it here:

https://github.com/bernd-wechner/Linux-Tools/blob/master/xstat

Note that a fix is ostensibly on the todo list for Linux as documented in that script. So this wrapper has a nominal lifespan only until that is done and is more an exercise in what's doable.