[CentOS] Relabel /usr directory

Tue Feb 4 21:03:27 UTC 2020
Nataraj <incoming-centos at rjl.com>

On 2/4/20 9:59 AM, Sergio Belkin wrote:
> Hi,
> I've done the following:
> - Copy usr content with rsync to another partition:
>
> rsync -av --partial --progress /usr/ /mnt
>
> Then, unmounted, added to fstab a line for /usr, then deleted /usr/* (not
> the directory itself). But I've found that is bad labeled:
>
> ls -Z /usr
> unconfined_u:object_r:unlabeled_t:s0 bin
>  unconfined_u:object_r:unlabeled_t:s0 local
> unconfined_u:object_r:unlabeled_t:s0 games
>  unconfined_u:object_r:unlabeled_t:s0 sbin
> unconfined_u:object_r:unlabeled_t:s0 include
>  unconfined_u:object_r:unlabeled_t:s0 share
> unconfined_u:object_r:unlabeled_t:s0 lib
>  unconfined_u:object_r:unlabeled_t:s0 src
> unconfined_u:object_r:unlabeled_t:s0 lib64
>  unconfined_u:object_r:unlabeled_t:s0 tmp
>
> How can I restore the default contexts?
>
> I've tried with restorecon and with fixfiles, but no luck, for example:
>
> matchpathcon -V /usr
> /usr error: No data available
>
> How can I fix this?
>
> Thanks in advance.


The -X option to rsync will copy all extended attributes from the old to
the new filesystem.


Nataraj