Linux boot partitions and how to set them up
There are many years since I no longer create partitions on any SSD or HDD, because I believe that this serves no useful purpose and it just wastes a part of the SSD/HDD.<p>I format directly the raw unpartitioned SSD/HDD with a file system that uses 100% of the capacity, with no wasted sectors. At least on Linux and FreeBSD, there is no need of partitions.<p>For booting the computers, I either boot them from Ethernet or I boot them from a small USB memory that uses a FAT file system for storing the OS kernel, either in the format required by UEFI booting, or, when booting Linux in legacy BIOS mode, together with syslinux, which loads the kernel.