selinux and file system check

Richard Ryniker ryniker at alum.mit.edu
Mon Nov 1 11:54:33 UTC 2010


>> For the update / selinux relabel issue, if you write to file systems
>> with selinux disabled that is going to trigger needing a relabel.
>
>this happens without any writing (that i know about) occuring. just enter
>and exit rescue mode, with the partition(s) mounted rw.

If you mount the file system read-write, expect the journal to be opened
(in case a write should occur).  This changes the journal metadata,
therefore a write does occur, even if no user write operation is
performed.  Once the file system has been modified, SELinux needs to
check...


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