Date of first installation of FreeBSD

[balanga]

Is there any way to tell when FreeBSD was first installed on a system?

I have a ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 1 on which I installed FreeBSD alongside the original Windows installation but did this many years ago.

Is there any way to tell, eg from when the disk was repartitioned and which version of FreeBSD was installed?

It's time I tidied up this laptop and don't really know where to start

 

[SirDice]

Thread 'Date of a FreeBSD installation'

Nov 29, 2022

How to know when FreeBSD system was installed?
For example:

# stat -f '%SB %N' /
May 12 11:33:00 2022 /
#

But I remember that my system was installed in July, not earlier.

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[cracauer@]

`ls -ltr /etc/` i what I use.

 

[Maturin]

Desktop: Apr. 9 2021
NAS: Jun. 18 2022
not first, current machines

 

[drhowarddrfine]

May 15, 2024 cause I wanted to switch to ZFS on a clean build. Out of curioslity, I looked to see when I rebuilt before that (from my notes): August 4, 2015!

 

[bvdw78]

My NAS server's boot disk broke in the beginning April of 2023. If it had lived, the install date would have been sometime in 2012. A broken HDD once every decade is acceptable.