Peter_22@xxxxxx wrote: > Once I am done with a system disk there is no partition table left over > and no space before the beginning of a first partition wasted. When > issuing "less -f /dev/sdX" there has to come up nothing else but randomly > looking data, from the first to the very last sector. Such a drive looks > no different from a drive where "dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/sdX" has been > run. Most people understand that large hunk of random looking data is either compressed or encrypted. You may be able to claim that your no-partition-tables hard disk contains compressed data if you slap gzip or bzip2 header to the beginning of the the disk. Or even better, write a header that says "technobubble compressor version 0.1-alpha3 1999-06-15". When asked how to decompress that, you say "they went out of business". -- Jari Ruusu 1024R/3A220F51 5B 4B F9 BB D3 3F 52 E9 DB 1D EB E3 24 0E A9 DD - Linux-crypto: cryptography in and on the Linux system Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-crypto/