linux-kernel - Re: completely hide parts of the partition table from Windows?

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Message-ID: <19083.15853.600539.314231@pilspetsen.it.uu.se>
Date:	Wed, 19 Aug 2009 01:49:01 +0200
From:	Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@...uu.se>
To:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc:	Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@...uu.se>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Andries Brouwer <aeb@....nl>
Subject: Re: completely hide parts of the partition table from Windows?

Alan Cox writes:
 > > Any recommendations? If no existing partition table format is suitable
 > > for my use case then I'm perfectly willing to invent a simple new format
 > > and add the corresponding parser to the kernel.
 > 
 > Or if its not the boot partition can you not just tell device mapper about
 > it and create a device mapper device of the offset ?

I have no experience with the device mapper, but I'll give it a
try and see how it works out. Thanks for the suggestion.
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