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  • Know the inode of the directory by ls -i command (lets say for example its X)

  • Know on which partition your directory is saved by df -T /path command ( lets say its on /dev/sda1 )

  • Now use this command : sudo debugfs -R 'stat ' /dev/sda1 You will see in the output :

  • crtime: 0x4e81cacc:966104fc -- mon Sep 27 14:38:28 2013

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