I wanted to debootstrap to a new filesystem on /T but…

E: Target directory '/T' is not empty and it would be wiped


I find this message a bit restrictive if just…

$ ls -l /T
total 17
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root  1024 Jun 14 18:34 boot
drwx------ 2 root root 16384 Jun 14 18:40 lost+found


As a workaround, I did “mkdir /T/T”, will debootstrap into that,
then use the host’s mc(1) to move everything.