Without boot partition

Nirjonadda

• January 13, 2018 15:44

We have a server Without boot partition. Does Boot partitions are not necessary. Since it"s the same drive, the data will be saved on the same drive. It"s not required to have a boot part? Please let me know that Do we face any issue in future without /boot partition? 50251

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  PenguinInternet

  • January 14, 2018 15:02

  It's not strictly necessary to have a separate boot partition - if you're not using RAID or LVM then it makes no difference operationally, although potentially it gives you some extra flexibility in the event of a corrupt partition or file system. Nothing to worry about though as you are currently configured.

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  Nirjonadda

  • January 14, 2018 16:45

  It's not strictly necessary to have a separate boot partition - if you're not using RAID or LVM then it makes no difference operationally, although potentially it gives you some extra flexibility in the event of a corrupt partition or file system. Nothing to worry about though as you are currently configured.

  
  Yes I am using Hardware RAID. So /boot partition are not Recommended? As I know A /boot partition Recommended Partitioning Scheme.

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  cPWilliamL

  • January 16, 2018 19:22

  Hi @Nirjonadda, The Arch wiki has some nice information on raids: RAID - ArchWiki [QUOTE] and temporary data. Please note that with a software implementation, the RAID 1 level is the only option for the boot partition, because bootloaders reading the boot partition do not understand RAID, but a RAID 1 component partition can be read as a normal partition. The size of a RAID 1 array block device is the size of the smallest component partition.
  So if you're using RAID1, then a single '/' partition may be possible, but I would certainly opt for a separate partition.

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