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On Jun 12, 2009, at 2:38 PM, david-8uUts6sDVDvs2Lz0fTdYFQ at public.gmane.org wrote: >> Boot the live cd, and mount the original / and the new /var >> partitions. >> mv /oldroot/var/* /newvar/ >> edit /oldroot/etc/fstab to add entry for newvar >> touch /oldroot/.autorelabel > > That's pretty much what I did, except for the .autorelabel part. > What is > that? selinux security context relabeling. >> The last step should fix selinux before anything could fail because >> of it. >> There's a way you could do it while booted in the liveCD (involving >> chroot >> and >> restorecon), but it's easier (but more time-consuming w.r.t. system >> downtime) >> to just relabel everything. > > Ah. I forgot about selinux. I despise it. It's caused me nothing but > pain. Is that what the audit messages were from? Possibly. audit and selinux are separate-but-incestuously-related beasts... The blunt instrument route is to simply boot with the added kernel params 'selinux=0 audit=0'. -- Jarod Wilson jarod-ajLrJawYSntWk0Htik3J/w at public.gmane.org
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