Hi, Quoting Antoine Beaupre (2021-04-28 21:17:03) > This fails: > > # mkdir -p /mnt/var > # mount /dev/sdb /mnt/var > # mmdebstrap buster /mnt > I: automatically chosen mode: root > I: chroot architecture amd64 is equal to the host's architecture > E: /mnt is not empty > > While I understand the idea (we don't want to destroy things i > guess?), it seems rather inconvenient if we want to split data across > different partitions which, I suspect, is still a valid use case for > various reasons.
yes, this is by design to avoid stuff like this from happening: https://bugs.debian.org/833525 > It might be worth adding a commandline flag to allow such behavior, at > least... You are probably talking about --skip=check/empty Alternatively, you can also run mmdebstrap like this: mmdebstrap buster | tar -C /mnt -xf - Thanks! cheers, josch
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