How to determinate the creation time of an Ignite-UX tape

HP 9000 (PA-RISC)

1. Rewind the tape.

# mt -f /dev/rmt/0mn rew

2. Copy the boot tape LIF area into a temporay file.

# dd if=/dev/rmt/0mn of=var/tmp/lifarea bs=2k

3. Review the LIF area content.

# lifls -l /var/tmp/lifarea
volume ISL10 data size 1953114 directory size 3 09/01/06 00:44:40 <-- LIF directory creation time
filename   type   start   size     implement  created
===============================================================
ISL        -12800 16      242      0          09/01/06 00:44:40
AUTO       -12289 264     1        0          09/01/06 00:44:40
INDEX      BIN    272     1        0          09/01/06 00:44:40
CONFIG     BIN    280     58       0          09/01/06 00:44:40
HPUX       -12928 344     1024     0          09/01/06 00:44:40
FWWKAR6    BIN    1368    1        0          09/01/06 00:44:40
FWWKAR7    BIN    1376    1        0          09/01/06 00:44:40
FWWKAR8    BIN    1384    1        0          09/01/06 00:44:40
INSTALL    -12290 1392    62442    0          09/01/06 00:44:45
INSTALLFS  -12290 63840   61440    0          09/01/06 00:44:46
VINSTALLFS -12290 63840   61440    0          09/01/06 00:44:46
WINSTALLFS -12290 63840   61440    0          09/01/06 00:44:46
VINSTALL   -12290 125280  75819    0          09/01/06 00:44:51
WINSTALL   -12290 201104  88462    0          09/01/06 00:44:59
INSTCMDS   BIN    289568  39572    0          09/01/06 00:45:01
SYSCMDS    BIN    329144  83162    0          09/01/06 00:45:08
SCRIPTS    BIN    412312  45       0          09/01/06 00:45:08
VERSION    BIN    412360  1        0          09/01/06 00:45:08
PAD        BIN    412368  256      0          09/01/06 00:45:08

• Note: The LIF directory and files creation time is presented in ISO Date format (YEAR-MONTH-DAY). In this example:
  09/01/06 = January 6th, 2009.

Authors

• Alejandro Marin Badilla
• Editor Scott Marer