Tag Archives: GRUB

I will give an example of changing the root password for systems similar to Ubuntu, CentOS, Fedora:

By default, the GRUB boot loader is installed on the first disk in the system, it is usually a hard disk, but on some servers with RAID controllers I noticed that when you turn on the server, select the USB flash drive in the Boot menu, of course, to boot from it, it becomes the first disk, then there is /dev/sda and at the end of the system installation the bootloader is installed on it.

On the test, I installed a clean Ubuntu Server 18.04, during the installation, the system automatically split the disk into one main /dev/sda1, which already had /boot files.
Since I did not have a system with /boot on a separate partition, I transferred it to a separate one and described the process in this article – Transfer /boot from a main partition to a separate partition

Now let’s move the /boot partition to the main /.

Let’s look at the information about the disks:

sudo fdisk -l
df -h

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Today, I’ll give an example of moving /boot from a shared partition to a separate partition.
For the test, you can connect a new disk or use the first partition on any disk, for example, with a size of 512MB.

Let’s look at the information about the disks:

sudo fdisk -l
sudo ls -l /boot
sudo du -hs /boot

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