Mike wrote: > Daniel J Walsh <dwalsh <at> redhat.com> writes: > >> If you mount with a "context=" flag no context will get placed on the disk. >> >> You may/probably do not want the files on this backup to have the >> labels, and often are better off calling restorecon when placing them >> back on disk. If you have different policies on different machines, the >> layout of file context maybe different and in some cases the types on >> one machine might not be understood on another. >> >> By placing the files back on a machine and running restorecon, you are >> saying that you want the files labeled according to the policy of the >> current machine. > > Thanks Dan - generally true although I have modified some contexts without > having an associated policy so some of the individual files would need to > then be amended after a restorecon... which was why I thought that the > way to go was to backup with exactly the contexts from the originating > machine with the intention that the files from backup would only ever > be used on the originating machine in the event of lost files or > some other catastrophe. > > Would that be appropriate in this case? > Yes that should work > Your help is appreciated on this. > > > > You can change the labeling with semanage fcontext of course to make restorecon do the right thing. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
