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Posted: **Fri Aug 18, 2017 12:32 am**

Assume that /dev/sda1 is your root partition, change it in the command if necessary:

sudo dumpe2fs /dev/sda1 | grep 'Filesystem created:'

Voila! Also works on separate home partitions--mine dates back to 2012.

Posted: **Fri Aug 18, 2017 3:18 am**

Code:- tune2fs -l /dev/sda1

Is also very informative.

A little trick to find out exactly when you installed a Linux OS