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There was a major ext4 bug just earlier this year that caused data loss for some folks: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=785672 https://bugs.de

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

madez 11y ago
One of your arguments was to put /bin and /sbin onto a seperate partition so that if something happens, it’s unlikely that /bin and /sbin are affected. In reality however, nobody cares about /bin and /sbin at all. Another argument was more fine grained permission control. You can do that by other means, for example with subvolumes. So, after all, possible corruptions are not alleviated by complex partition struture, or only with a bad trade-off for complexity. Instead, do backups. Easy and reliable. Everbody is happy, without many partitions. Simplicity is crucial and it's one thing the free software ecosystem is consistently getting wrong. I see it as the major showstopper for many people to use it more intensively. The filesystem hierarchy is just one culprit, but a fundamental one. Take a look at at some fundamental pure mathematics lectures or books. You can immediately see that this was designed to be as easy as possible. Software must be the same.