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 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-cifs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html