Copying files without losing selinux context

[Suvayu Ali]

Hi,

Yesterday I installed a new SSD in my laptop.  I moved all my files
(/home, /var, /opt) with rsync and rebooted.  However I see the selinux
filecontexts are wrong, and many services are failing because of that,
e.g. the user crontab doesn't load.

  # ls -Z /var/spool/cron/user
  unconfined_u:object_r:var_spool_t:s0 /var/spool/cron/user

I did an autorelabel on boot, I also ran `restorecon -p -r /var',
neither helped.  To get the crontab working, I had to change the context
by hand.

  # chcon --reference=/old/part/spool/cron/user /var/spool/cron/user
  # ls -Z /var/spool/cron/user 
  unconfined_u:object_r:user_cron_spool_t:s0 /var/spool/cron/user

I would like to know how I can fix the rest, and what I should have used
to do the copy in the first place.  I guess `cp -c' would work, but then
I wouldn't have the ability to resume the transfer.

Thanks for any help.

Cheers,

-- 
Suvayu

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