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

[Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@it.uu.se>]

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