F11 Preview - test with usbkey - upgrade partitions

Chuck Anderson cra at WPI.EDU
Thu Apr 30 14:54:32 UTC 2009


On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 07:52:06AM -0700, Mike Cloaked wrote:
> I should comment on that - on systems prior to F10 I used to have /home as a
> symlink to a home directory on another partition - but that caused real (avc
> denial) problems when I ran F10 which was the first time I used SElinux in
> earnest - so now I used a bind mount rather than a symlink and SElinux does
> not complain.  Since SElinux is there by default now, and with no install
> option to disable it I decided to climb the SElinux learning curve, and now
> all my systems run with SElinux enabled for F10 - I am now happy with that
> though there are a few tweaks needed for some applications to work without
> avc denials.
> 
> I also use bind mounts for mail directories that are stored locally using
> dovecot imap so that my previous system's email is not lost during install
> of a new system.

SELinux can have problems with bind mounts as well, because when the 
system is relabelled, the "wrong" path will label all the files 
incorrectly.




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