Preparing my system for upgrade to FC4 / Tip: buy a new disk

[Paul Howarth]

On Mon, 2005-06-13 at 11:53 -0700, Kenneth Porter wrote:
> Disks are cheap, so I'm buying a new disk for my server, copying all my 
> existing partitions to it (actually, I'll use dump and restore, which also 
> lets me do a "fire drill" on my backups). I'll then pull out the original 
> drive, boot from the new drive, and upgrade that. If anything bad happens, 
> I'll have the old drive to fall back to. Once the upgrade is done, I'll 
> mount the old disk read-only and diff the parts of the two systems that 
> I've customized (eg. /etc, /var, and /home) and figure out what 
> customizations failed to get migrated. I can also query the old RPM 
> database if needed to see where I got 3rd party packages. (I tend to stay 
> on the bleeding edge for things like SpamAssassin, getting the RPM from 
> upstream.)

Do dump and restore correctly handle SLlinux file contexts these days?

Paul.
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Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org>