[CentOS] Relabel /usr directory

Wed Feb 5 00:30:41 UTC 2020
Simon Matter <simon.matter at invoca.ch>

> Hi,
> I've done the following:
> - Copy usr content with rsync to another partition:
>
> rsync -av --partial --progress /usr/ /mnt

I won't comment on you real question but just want to suggest to really
add -H to the rsync here as there are hardlinks in /usr you really want to
keep.

Simon

>
> 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.
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