dd whole disk within SElinux

Wed Nov 8 21:39:53 UTC 2006

On Wed, Nov 08, 2006 at 10:49:54 +0000,
  paul mullen <pdmullen at hotmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I need to create a backup image of my system and was going to use dd 
> if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb.
> With SElinux targeted policy enabled will this have any affect on the dd 
> working correctly?
> New to SElinux so any advise advice is appreciated.

I have used dd to copy data from raw partitions under the targetted selinux
policy in enforcing mode in fc5.

This should be easy for you to test if /dev/hdb is currently a scratch device.