[TriLUG] Hiding USB thumb drive partitions...

[Chris Knowles]

Yeah, I've tried modifying the partition type and also changing the type
to hidden, and neither stops either Ubuntu or Windows from mounting that
partition.

I agree that it's unlikely that I could get windows to ignore it, but I
thought for sure there was a way to get Linux to ignore it.  (Heck, it's
not all that long ago that it took effort to get Linux to notice them.)

Thanks for spending the brain cells to think about the problem.

CJK

On Sun, 2008-04-06 at 11:01 -0700, Joseph Mack NA3T wrote:
> On Sun, 6 Apr 2008, Craig Taylor wrote:
> 
> >> So, finally, my question.  Is there a way to make Linux (and other OS's
> >> that shall go unnamed) ignore the first partition on this drive, while
> >> still leaving it bootable/usable as the sysresccd?
> 
> I don't know, but I'll take the mathematical point of view
> 
> Can you make a partition which is designed to be visible to 
> any application that's interested in partitions, visible to 
> some of these applications and not to others?
> 
> I would expect not.
> 
> You can make a partition hidden, but then nothing will see 
> it (AFAIK). You have to unhide the partition to reveal it 
> again.
> 
> Joe
> 
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