Tony Nelson wrote: >Sent: Friday, December 07, 2007 8:43 AM >To: fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx >Subject: Re: Best way to copy /usr to different partition? > > >At 10:43 PM -0500 12/6/07, Kevin J. Cummings wrote: >>Daniel B. Thurman wrote: >>> I was getting dangerously close to running out of disk space >>> since /usr was filling up fast. >>> >>> I thought it was simple to tar-copy /usr to a different >drive/partiton >>> using tar copy such as: >>> >>> (cd /usr; tar cpf - .) | (cd /newpartition; tar xpf -) >> >>using tar doesn't copy the extended attributes used by SELinux. ... > ... > >`man tar` shows the --xattrs and --no-xattrs options (though >`man tar` and >`info tar` don't say what the default is), so tar should work >for EAs if >used with --xattrs. >-- >____________________________________________________________________ >TonyN.:' <mailto:tonynelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > ' <http://www.georgeanelson.com/> > >-- I have discovered that using: (cd /usr-b; tar -cp -xattrs -f - .) | (cd /usr; tar -xp --xattrs -f -) OR (cd /usr; cp -pR /usr-b/. .) did not preserve the selinux attributes. I have checked the attributes in /usr-b/lib/libsysfs* and it has lib_t assigned to these files against the copied files /usr/lib/libsysfs* and it shows default_t instead of lib_t. This may mean that my entire /usr filesystem has improper selinux attributes. Can someone tell me how to copy the files from my original /usr-b filesystem to /usr filesystem with the selinux attributes intact? No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.503 / Virus Database: 269.16.17/1176 - Release Date: 12/6/2007 11:15 PM
