Fedora install and Selinux question

[unc-newbie]

When i originally installed Fedora 4 I chose to enable the SElinux security and now wished i hadn't. My system currently has 2 harddrives one that is 10gig and the other is 160gig. My OS is installed on the 10gig drive and i use my 160gig drive for data storage. If i was to disconnect the 160gig drive and then do a reinstall of Fedora 4 without the SELinux option. My question is if i try and reconnect my 160gig drive with the fresh install on Fedora, will i loose any of my data on that drive?

[pparks1]

no need to reinstall.

run system-config-securitylevel. From within there, you can disable SELinux.

[axelseap]

you don't have to reinstall type system-config-securitylevel then select the selinux tab and uncheck that enabled box

[Spoon!]

or just uncheck "Enforcing"

[gavinw6662]

you can also open /etc/sysconfig/selinux in your favorite text editor and change the "Enforcing" to 'disabled' and then reboot. You should good to go after that.

[tbl]

about this question ...
I would like to know the interest of SELinux ?
Could anyone explain me the need of this kind of ....option, please ?

thx

PS : Happy Christmas ! :)

[w5set]

http://www.nsa.gov/selinux/info/faq.cfm
read away...

[sempreexe]

I was wondering, as I'm exploring FC4, with the install of FC4 I disabled SELinux.

When I get a bit around in FC4, I plan on activating this though. I've read on this and different previous topics and the faqs that:

To disable use the editor or run system-config-securitylevel...

---> is this the same for activiting it?
SELINUX=enforcing. You can either reboot or run setenforce 1 to turn enforcing on in real time.

By activating it, you should apply this to all running applications/processes...

---> so this could cause problems with the already installed packages?