May I suggest first moving everything into /usr one at a time, and for each file moved out of /bin or /sbin or whatever, replace it with a symlink?
This will allow the /bin and /sbin directories themselves to atomically be replaced with symlinks later. Doing it all at once will leave a gap. For each file: 1. Install it in the new location 2. Delete the old file and replace it with a symlink On Thu, Apr 7, 2016 at 9:36 AM, Alexis Ballier <aball...@gentoo.org> wrote: > On Thursday, April 7, 2016 6:22:16 PM CEST, Rich Freeman wrote: > >> Again, I don't see this as a reason not to make it optional, but I >> suspect that we will find bugs here from time to time which users who >> run with the split /usr will have to report/fix. >> > > > Considering the advantages of usr-merge are rather specific IMHO but risks > during the migration are high, I think you're optimistic on the user base > of usr-merged systems :) > > Heck, it hasn't happened yet because there hasn't been such a big need for > it. > >
