On 03/21/2012 03:02 AM, Joshua Murphy wrote: > 1) make backups and... 1.a) verify backups... consider this my disclaimer... > 2) mkdir /mnt/root-bind/ /mnt/usr-bind/ > 3) mount --bind / /mnt/root-bind/ > 4) mount --bind /usr/ /mnt/usr-bind/ > 5) rsync --archive --hard-links --sparse --progress /mnt/usr-bind/ > /mnt/root-bind/usr/
At first it looked like you were copying things onto themselves. Then I noticed I was wrongly assuming --rbind mount operation rather than the actual plain --bind that you use. Nice approach! Best, Sebastian
