From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 18 20:21:08 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 587F937B415 for ; Wed, 18 Jun 2003 20:21:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B1FD543F85 for ; Wed, 18 Jun 2003 20:21:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) id h5J3L5ut001870; Wed, 18 Jun 2003 22:21:05 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan) Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2003 22:21:05 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: Peter Leftwich Message-ID: <20030619032105.GU64929@dan.emsphone.com> References: <20030618195823.P56547-100000@Video2Video.Com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030618195823.P56547-100000@Video2Video.Com> X-OS: FreeBSD 5.1-CURRENT X-message-flag: Outlook Error User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i cc: SDBUG cc: FreeBSD Questions LIST Subject: Re: Mount My Creation X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2003 03:21:08 -0000 In the last episode (Jun 18), Peter Leftwich said: > Ponder this... Why is it "/etc/fstab" and not "/etc/mount.conf" ?? It's a shortcut for "filesystem table", I believe. fsck, dump, edquota, swapon and tunefs use it too. See the fstab manpage for more info. > Ponder this... Why does M$FT Windows have Created, Accessed, and > Modified, while UNIX (beware of unresearched, wide-sweeping > generalizations...) only provides one the "Last modified" date and > time stamp? All ufs-based filesystems I've ever seen support accessed, modified, and inode-changed (metadata) timestamps. ufs2 (5.x's default filesystem) also apparently supports a "birth" timestamp, which probably corresponds with windows' Create. See the stat(2) manpage for more details. > PS - Please CC: me in your reply! Standard procedure for these lists. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com