Thread: How to hide a partition?

is there way hide partition in ubuntu?

have dualboot windows 7 ubuntu. there system reserved partition of windows 7. want hide partition.

the easy way

install gparted "sudo apt-get install gparted", open it, select disk, select partition, right click, properties, flags, hidden.

the hard way

here list of commonly used partitions, hide , unhide

< bit position>-----id------partition type------------
0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 --- 7 ---- ntfs
0 0 0 1 0 1 1 1 --- 17 --- ntfs (hidden)
1 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 --- 83 --- native linux
1 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 --- 93 --- native linux (hidden)
0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 --- 6 ---- fat16
0 0 0 1 0 1 1 0 --- 16 --- fat16 (hidden)
0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 --- c ---- fat32 (lba)
0 0 0 1 1 1 0 0 --- 1c --- fat32 (lba) (hidden)
1 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 --- a5 --- bsd
1 0 1 1 0 1 0 1 --- b5 --- bsd (hidden)
1 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 --- bf --- solaris
1 0 1 0 1 1 1 1 --- af --- solaris (hidden)
0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 --- 5 ---- dos extended partition
0 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 --- 15 --- dos extended partition (hidden)
1 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 --- 85 --- linux extended partition
1 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 --- 95 --- linux extended partition (hidden)

above hidden partitions, far aware, supported major pc operating systems , nobody uses convention. can find them listed in “fdisk”, “cfdisk” , “sfdisk”. these programs user hide partition altering partition id. interestingly both linux boot loader grub , lilo hides or unhides partition toggling 5th bit of binary number of partition id.

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