On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 11:23:28AM -0400, Al Freundorfer wrote:
>
> I was directed to post this on the mailing list. See the following forum post
> as a reference.
>
> http://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=16710&forum=42
>
> I formatted my external ext3 372GB USB hard drive in ubuntu and now want to
> use it
> in Centos. I made sure that my group/user numbers were the same. I was not
> able to write to the mounted USB hard drive (HD). I suspected selinux and
> shut it of and I was able to copy the file! I set selinux back to enforce and
> rebooted. I like the security features of selinux.
>
> I tried:
> 1) chcon -v
> 2) restorecon -Rv /media/disk
> 3) cp -P
>
> and still am not able to write to the USB HD. The sad part is I can delete
> files from the USB HD. See forum post for details.
>
> I tried it in fedora 9 and it is able to write to the USB HD
>
> I tried an 32GB USB memory stick in Centos 5.2 and it worked!
> I am wondering why it doesn't work for my USB HD? The only difference is the
> the size.
>
Try rebooting in permissive mode then inspect the avc messages.
Double check the permissions of the mount point before and
after mounting the device.
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T o m M i t c h e l l
Found me a new hat, now what?
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