Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2417 mails)

[Anders Johansson <ajh@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sunday 06 April 2008 12:06:27 pelibali wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have several computers, mainly older SUSE 9.x and 10.x releases to
> administer and I simply forgot when any of these systems has been
> installed. On a Hungarian list I received a reply to do 'ls -ld /'
> to see the age of the file-system (installation date if fresh
> install), others suggested to go for 'ls -l /etc/SuSE-release', but
> none of these really works and gives me that particular date.
> Further idea would be to ship this date from the rpm database via
> 'rpm -qa --last | tail', which in fact works and looks OK on a
> single machine, but I'm not sure if the date would be still OK, if in
> the meantime the very first rpms would have been removed/updated/etc.
>
> Any idea please to do such analysis for a existing system's age?!
> (Please do not answer asking why the above systems are not updated;
> most of the systems have no internet connection or work via 56k mo-
> dem line and so outdated machines ~p2 would not work properly with
> the new shiny and mega-large openSUSE releases.)

If the file system on / is ext2 or 3 you can do dumpe2fs -h on it and see when 
it was created

Filesystem created:       Wed Oct 10 18:27:53 2007

for example, is what it says on my machine.

Anders

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