GNU bug report logs - #14880
cp copy birth time

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Package: coreutils;

Reported by: Enda <enda_k2 <at> yahoo.com>

Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2013 14:43:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: notabug

Merged with 14703

Done: Assaf Gordon <assafgordon <at> gmail.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Enda <enda_k2 <at> yahoo.com>
To: 14880 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#14880: cp copy birth time
Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2013 07:42:18 -0700 (PDT)

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Copying a file using cp on a NTFS filesystem to an ext4 filesystem does not copy the birth time:

$ cp --preserve=all ntfs.txt ~


$ stat ~/ntfs.txt 
...
 Birth: -



-- Enda
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