migrating volumes -- Recipes? Critiques?

[Joel Rees]

On Sat, May 7, 2011 at 2:17 AM, Daniel J Walsh <dwalsh at redhat.com> wrote:
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> On 05/05/2011 07:40 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
>> On Thu, 2011-05-05 at 14:25 +0900, Joel Rees wrote:
>>> I'm probably going to go ahead and drop the new partition and just
>>> expand /var, but I suspect this has to do with selinux, which I've
>>> been avoiding learning how to do right.
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>> IIRC (it was a while back) I just moved /var/cache to a different
>> filesystem using "cp -rp" and left a symbolic link behind. Worked fine.
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>> poc
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> You probably have a labeling issue.  Check for error messages in
> /var/log/audit/audit.log

Ouch. That's huge. You could have talked all day ...

:-P

I guess it's time for me to learn how to read that file.

> ausearch -m avc -ts recent
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> Should show you the SELinux error messages.

(Hmm. No matches. Time for me to dig a bit deeper.)

Thanks. That should help me quit procrastinating.

Joel Rees