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

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Message-ID: <19089.24045.354367.108579@pilspetsen.it.uu.se>
Date:	Sun, 23 Aug 2009 17:19:09 +0200
From:	Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@...uu.se>
To:	"Andries E. Brouwer" <Andries.Brouwer@....nl>
Cc:	Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@...uu.se>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: completely hide parts of the partition table from Windows?

Andries E. Brouwer writes:
 > On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 12:59:01AM +0200, Mikael Pettersson wrote:
 > 
 > >  >  > Make a table that has a Linux extended partition (type 85)
 > >  >  > that is short enough not to cause Windows to worry. Have logical
 > >  >  > partitions inside of any size and location you desire.
 > > 
 > > The problem here is that both fdisk and parted refuse to let me
 > > create a logical partition that exceeds the boundaries of the
 > > enclosing extended partition entry. So for this approach I'd have
 > > to find another Linux partitioning tool, or hack e.g. fdisk to
 > > bypass its safety checks (which do make sense for most use cases,
 > > just not for mine).
 > 
 > My plan would be (i) create the right logical partitions
 > (inside a sufficiently large extended one) using any partitioner.
 > (ii) change the type and size of the outer extended partition only,
 > for example using sfdisk. The -N option can be used to tell sfdisk
 > to change only a single partition entry.

Thanks, sfdisk did the trick.

/Mikael
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