On Wed, 2006-02-15 at 12:52 -0500, Stephen Smalley wrote: > On Wed, 2006-02-15 at 15:25 +0100, Petr Fischer wrote: > > I really don't want install fresh system on new disk (like windows > > reinstalls... ugly... fusty...) - I need migration by transparent > > filesystem way - and this didn't work - should I post to fedora-dev > > list? > > > > What about "cp -ax"? Is all (selinux) attributes really copied? > > No. You need cp --preserve=all to preserve SELinux attributes (or at > least --preserve=context). BTW, setfiles has an alternate root path > option (-r /path/to/altroot) that can be used to label a filesystem > under a different root, which can be helpful when constructing a root > filesystem separate from the operational one. Short form of --preserve=context is -c, so you could do e.g. cp -acx /path/to/old /path/to/new -- Stephen Smalley National Security Agency
