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?