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Re:New Zealand travellers refusing digital search now face $... by v_lisivka on Monday October 01, 2018 @11:50AM (#18113795)
OMG. Just use two SSD's and turn off second in the BIOS.

Or use same technique as Chinese fakers are using to create fake flash cards or SSD's: just reduce size of drive directly in the controller.

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Re:New Zealand travellers refusing digital search now face $... by gureddio on Monday October 01, 2018 @12:20PM (#18114103)
... if your laptop has space for two SSDs
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Re:New Zealand travellers refusing digital search now face $... by efreak on Monday October 01, 2018 @05:00PM (#18116769)
Hidden partition flag, then. Or just dual boot with a secondary system as default; either a live os image (linux) or installed on a vhd (windows).
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Re:New Zealand travellers refusing digital search now face $... by dotancohen on Tuesday October 02, 2018 @12:25AM (#18118786)
You could probably just remove the partition's fstab entry to get past most border searches. Or store the data in what appears to be a swap partition.
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