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Using Chromebrew when you have an irrational fear of wearing out emmc/ssd's
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  1. partition usb drive using preferred linux partitioning tool

  2. formst a partition as ext4

sudo mkfs.ext4 /dev/sdb1 -L usb3drive

  1. install chromebrew as per instructions in the chromebrew repo

curl -Ls git.io/vddgY | bash

  1. use chromebrew to install rsync

crew install rsync

  1. copy the chromebrew setup to usb using rsync

sudo rsync -a -v /usr/local/ /media/removable/usb3drive/

  1. delete chromebrew from /usr/local

sudo rm -rf /usr/local

  1. add following to bottom of .bashrc
MNTPNT=`mount | grep sda1 | awk '{print $3}'`
if [ "$MNTPNT" == "/media/removable/usb3drive" ]
then
  sudo umount /dev/sda1
  sudo mount -o owner /dev/sda1 /usr/local
fi

  1. exit/reboot

  2. be happy

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