[lug] question about ext 2/3 fs

[David L. Anselmi]

Paul E Condon wrote:
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> I rebooted my machine and all the frational seconds digits got set to
> zero on my test files, so your surmise that these are not stored on
> disk certainly has a lot of explanatory power.
> 
> But these digits mess up my attempts to test a backup system. Does
> anyone know of a way to clear them out of the OS that is faster than
> rebooting?  Is there a system call, or better yet, a command line
> utility? (sync doesn't clear internal OS mtime data)

Can't you just ignore them?

Dave