Dear fellow MonetDB users, The database directory is too large to keep on the root disk, so I always have used a symlink to the dbfarm directory under /var/monetdb. After updating to FC35, this has however been causing many SELinux errors, that would not want to be fixed easily. Not too long ago, I (finally?) learned about so-called *bind mounts* as an alternative to symlinks, and decided to give it a go. Indeed, the SELinux problems were gone after issuing the following sequence of commands. 1. Remove pre-existing symlink: sudo rm /var/monetdb5/dbfarm 2. Create mount point and bind mount: sudo mkdir /var/monetdb5/dbfarm sudo mount --bind /export/data/dbfarm /var/monetdb5/dbfarm 3. Reinstall the SELinux package: sudo dnf reinstall MonetDB-selinux If this works fine, you can add this line to /etc/fstab so the bind mount is persistent through reboot: /export/data/dbfarm /var/monetdb5/dbfarm none bind Hope this helps others who are updating their Fedora systems with existing databases, Happy new year to all, and a thank you for this great software to all MonetDB folks, Cheers, Arjen ==================================================================== ICIS, office M1.00.05 Radboud University Mercator 1 Faculty of Science Toernooiveld 212 arjen@cs.ru.nl NL-6525 EC Nijmegen, The Netherlands +31-(0)24-365 2354 ===================== http://www.informagus.nl/ ====================