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fixfiles(8) fixfiles(8)
fixfiles - fix file SELinux security contexts.
fixfiles [-v] [-F] [-M] [-f] [-T nthreads] relabel
fixfiles [-v] [-F] [-T nthreads] { check | restore | verify }
dir/file ...
fixfiles [-v] [-F] [-B | -N time ] [-T nthreads] { check | restore
| verify }
fixfiles [-v] [-F] [-T nthreads] -R
rpmpackagename[,rpmpackagename...] { check | restore | verify }
fixfiles [-v] [-F] [-T nthreads] -C PREVIOUS_FILECONTEXT { check |
restore | verify }
fixfiles [-F] [-M] [-B] [-T nthreads] onboot
This manual page describes the fixfiles script.
This script is primarily used to correct the security context
database (extended attributes) on filesystems.
It can also be run at any time to relabel when adding support for
new policy, or just check whether the file contexts are all as
you expect. By default it will relabel all mounted ext2, ext3,
ext4, gfs2, xfs, jfs and btrfs file systems as long as they do not
have a security context mount option. You can use the -R flag to
use rpmpackages as an alternative. The file
/etc/selinux/fixfiles_exclude_dirs can contain a list of
directories excluded from relabeling.
fixfiles onboot will setup the machine to relabel on the next
reboot.
-B If specified with onboot, this fixfiles will record the
current date in the /.autorelabel file, so that it can be
used later to speed up labeling. If used with restore, the
restore will only affect files that were modified today.
-F Force reset of context to match file_context for
customizable files
-f Clear /tmp directory with out prompt for removal.
-R rpmpackagename[,rpmpackagename...]
Use the rpm database to discover all files within the
specified packages and restore the file contexts.
-C PREVIOUS_FILECONTEXT
Run a diff on the PREVIOUS_FILECONTEXT file to the
currently installed one, and restore the context of all
affected files.
-N time
Only act on files created after the specified date. Date
must be specified in "YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM" format. Date field
will be passed to find --newermt command.
-M Bind mount filesystems before relabeling them, this allows
fixing the context of files or directories that have been
mounted over.
-v Modify verbosity from progress to verbose. (Run restorecon
with -v instead of -p)
-T nthreads
Use parallel relabeling, see setfiles(8)
One of:
check | verify
print any incorrect file context labels, showing old and
new context, but do not change them.
restore
change any incorrect file context labels.
relabel
Prompt for removal of contents of /tmp directory and then
change any incorrect file context labels to match the
install file_contexts file.
[[dir/file] ... ]
List of files or directories trees that you wish to check
file context on.
Relabel the whole filesystem, except paths listed in /etc/selinux/fixfiles_exclude_dirs
# fixfiles relabel
Schedule the machine to relabel on the next boot and force relabeling of customizable types
# fixfiles -F onboot
Check labeling of all files from the samba package (while not changing any labels)
# fixfiles -R samba check
This man page was written by Richard Hally
<[email protected]>. The script was written by Dan Walsh
<[email protected]>
setfiles(8), restorecon(8)
This page is part of the selinux (Security-Enhanced Linux user-
space libraries and tools) project. Information about the project
can be found at ⟨https://github.com/SELinuxProject/selinux/wiki⟩.
If you have a bug report for this manual page, see
⟨https://github.com/SELinuxProject/selinux/wiki/Contributing⟩.
This page was obtained from the project's upstream Git repository
⟨https://github.com/SELinuxProject/selinux⟩ on 2025-08-11. (At
that time, the date of the most recent commit that was found in
the repository was 2025-08-04.) If you discover any rendering
problems in this HTML version of the page, or you believe there is
a better or more up-to-date source for the page, or you have
corrections or improvements to the information in this COLOPHON
(which is not part of the original manual page), send a mail to
[email protected]
2002031409 fixfiles(8)
Pages that refer to this page: selinux_config(5), restorecon(8), selinux(8)
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