[CentOS] Copying root partition

Thu Nov 4 17:34:37 UTC 2010
RedShift <redshift at pandora.be>

On 11/04/10 12:56, Nicolas Thierry-Mieg wrote:
> John R Pierce wrote:
>> On 11/04/10 4:28 AM, Timothy Murphy wrote:
>>> I recently transferred the / partition on my CentOS server
>>> from a small disk to a large disk, using "rsync -auvz".
>>>
>>> This works fine, except that I get dozens of selinux warnings
>>> when I re-boot.
>>> I'm running selinux in permissive mode.
>>>
>>> Is there any way to make sure that all the files in a partition
>>> are kosher as far as selinux is concerned?
>>>
>>
>> I would use dump | restore for that, on a file system by file system
>> basis.   rsync won't maintain inodes or permissions very well, and
>> certainly won't handle selinux extended attributes
>
> doesn't rsync -X do that?




touch /.autorelabel
reboot


That should fix it.