On Jul 19, Marc Haber <mh+debian-devel@zugschlus.de> wrote: > I am NOT looking forward having to manually convert legacy systems to > merged /usr and I do sincerely hope that Debian will choose a way to > get away without throwing away systems that have just a small /, still > supporting a dedicated /usr as long as it's mounted by initramfs. I am They cannot be supported without keeping a lot of unneeded complexity around, but there is no reason to reinstall them: you can move / inside /usr instead. You may use either sash or a live CD image. > I also believe that smaller file systems are unlikely to break and > that a system that can boot up to a ssh-able state even with a broken > file system is way easier to fix. We have taken a huge step back in And "apt install grml-rescueboot" is even better. Also, with merged-/usr you may keep your *whole* OS in a read only file system. -- ciao, Marco
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