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Re:Questions for TSA after reports of laptop and phone searc... by marshray on Tuesday March 13, 2018 @12:47AM (#16573917)
Would you seriously attempt to convince US government agents that your 512 GB hard drive contains only a 256 GB filesystem because you're a random noise enthusiast?
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Re:Questions for TSA after reports of laptop and phone searc... by AlexCoventry on Tuesday March 13, 2018 @01:57PM (#16578172)
It looks like there's 512GB of space committed, but contains less than 256GB of content. There is no protection against the hidden volume being overwritten, if the content in the explicit volume grows too large.
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