what happens if during usrmerge you run out of space on /usr ?
does usrmerge back out gracefully, leaving the system intact?

is there a good way of estimating how much space will be needed
so i can repartition first if necessary?

i guess i have the same question about the subseqent upgrade
from daedalus to excalibur.

--hendrik

On Thu, Jun 25, 2026 at 11:04:08AM -0400, R A Montante, Ph.D. via Dng wrote:
> > Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2026 03:23:14 +0200
> > From: Arnt Karlsen<arnt@???>
> >
> > > https://pclinuxos.com/ The boomer distribution
> > >
> > > both are systemd free.
> > ..then they may be worthy of advice on how to try appear
> > viable by fixing their site withhttps://validator.w3.org/ or HTML-Tidy
> > and ditch ClueLessFlare telling us which darn
> > web browser to use.
>
> "Hear, hear!" to this. At least I don't get told to upgrade to Internet
> Explorer 4 any longer...
>
> Circling back to the subject line, can someone explain, or give me a pointer
> to an explanation, why the "usermerge" issue is such a problem?
>
> I get the rationale for the original "one of my 5-Megabyte disk packs has
> failed" division, and lumping everything into /usr seems like a minor bit of
> housekeeping simplification (alternatively, "/usr/bin" could just as well be
> a symlink back to "/bin", why not? )
>
> What breaks?  How?  Is it just that some people like to make /bin and /lib
> be read-only?
>
> TIA, -bob,mon.
>

> -- 
> "'Curiouser and curiouser!' cried Alice"
>     - Lewis Carroll, "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"

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