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By binary_pearl at 2011-02-07 21:40
The description below only works if you are root. Based upon comments on the content below, there is a desire to do something similar, but as a non-root user. I'll try to see what I can come up with. In the meantime, here is a way to "hide" files if you are root:
One of the many neat things you can do in Linux is to create a "virtual disk" (which is really just a file), and you can add other files to it. We use this at work to store an xml file into a virtual disk that are xen virtual machines use when booting to configure themselves. But you could also use this as a way to more-or-less hide files.
So first: Create the virtual disk (The example creates a 10MB disk):
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