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  • When you ask safe, you need to add "safe against...". Anything can be safe against X but unsafe against Y. For encrypted partitions, normally the password (to decrypt the key and then decrypt the partition) is asked at boot, which is not a problem for an end-user computer, but a problem for a server. If it is instead hardcoded in some files on the same disk, then access to the disk means access to everything, including what is encrypted. There are other solutions for a server. Commented Aug 23, 2019 at 21:39