have I lost the touch

[loftrat]

Hi Guys,

I'm not sure if I'm doing something wrong or if B|T has been 'tweaked' to avoid doing what I'm trying to do.

I'm trying to ascertain if the value of a file's MD5 sum changes when the 'Accessed' and 'Modified' dates change.

I know that you can change the 'Accessed' date by using 'touch', for example:

touch /root/Desktop/someFileName.txt

However, when I try this in B|T the 'Accessed' details remain the same.

I've checked the file permissions and they look ok, so I don't think it's that (I'm root anyway so that shouldn't be an issue). Google suggests that this should work, and I can't find anything similar here on the forums.

Any thoughts anybody? Am I going about this the wrong way?

Thanks.

[loftrat]

Think I solved it.

I was trying to 'touch' a file on a FAT32 file system..........