It seems like using single command with -R is only way to do it in Bash. I guess it is similar but can you do it in a script? X E.

Of course not. I get a feeling you worry too much...

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It is a low level Linux debugger, being careful is better than being with a toast computer. Better safe than sorry as that old saying goes. Would you like me to try to write a script for you?

No, thanks. Just wait to get a USB stick and try it yourself.

Okay, thanks. X E.

Just to be clear, something like "sudo mount debugfs /dev/sdXN" to start and then I can access stuff in debugfs then like that previous command but "u" in front of "mount"? I read man debugfs but there is little about this. Did you just do without mount or not? X E.

I can't find anything that says otherwise and I debugfs man page it looked like no mount so unless I hear otherwise, unmounted and stayed unmounted. X E.

Yes, the file system which you are editing should be unmounted. The 'debugfs' command accesses the disk directly.

If the fs were mounted, the OS would have an inode cache in RAM, and it would have different content than the disk if you access the disk directly using debugfs. The worst thing to do would be, for example, mixing 'touch' commands going via the OS and 'debugfs' commands going directly to the disk bypassing the inode cache. It would probably not do anything bad to your fs but at least you couldn't take it granted that all the time stamps were finally what you wanted.

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Mounting debugfs sounds again like confusing apples the fruits with Apple the computer company.

Nothing to do with editing ext4 file systems with command "debugfs", there is a virtual file system also called "debugfs". It can be mounted at /sys/kernel/debug. For example, if the kernel is built preemptible, you can control that:

Okay so use debugfs command only, no mount... command before. Thanks. X E.

Word from Theodore Ts'o, that way you tried is way to set only for before resetting year. May post more as it comes. X E.

I guess you mean this what michaelk already told you:

If you looked at the link he provided you saw this table: https://ext4.wiki.kernel.org/index.p...ode_Timestamps. The change will be after 2038-01-19 03:14:07 UTC when all the aeroplanes will also fall down and the banks will lose all the money.

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Okay so that change should stay after 2038. With that like my programs are complete but not with restore tested yet. Mr. Ts'o to me seemed to be like maybe they would not stay but stayed ambiguous about it thus far. Not contradicting you but now I am unsure why Mr. Ts'o is how He is in messages. I agree with you based on like my research. There may be an i_ or not i_ to set though so have to work with that. X E.