There was a major ext4 bug just earlier this year that caused data loss for some folks: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bugs.debian.org&#x2F;cgi-bin&#x2F;bugreport.cgi?bug=785672" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bugs.debian.org&#x2F;cgi-bin&#x2F;bugreport.cgi?bug=785672</a><p>Booting a LiveCD would not have fixed affected partitions.<p>You&#x27;re not the first on HN to say in so many words that the sometimes expensive lessons I&#x27;ve learned over 30 years of computing are suddenly irrelevant now. I used to argue that, but I don&#x27;t see much point to it anymore.