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kafkao - 2019-03-27

It's common practice to have one partition for your OS and one for your documents and files. Can you have this structure with a hidden OS - i.e. one hidden partition for the hidden OS and one hidden partition for the files and documents that would be accessible from the hidden OS.

Or is it that all files used from within the hidden OS would have to reside on the hidden OS's partition? Attached is an image to illustrate what I have in mind.

Last edit: kafkao 2019-03-27

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kafkao - 2019-03-30

Any suggestions?

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- Alex - 2019-03-30
  
  it is possible. see details about efi hidden os on the forum
  
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  - kafkao - 2019-03-31
    
    So would that work with the standard Veracrypt version or do I need the dc5 project?
    
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    - Alex - 2019-03-31
      
      dcs is efi boot loader for VeraCrypt but some features of dcs were not tested in the latest version of VeraCrypt. So you can use any project.
      
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      - kafkao - 2019-03-31
        
        Is there a specific procedure I need to follow (I found your disk_encryption_v1_2.pdf, but couldn't quite understand all the various partitions like one for GPT, S62, ESP, etc. - those look like a lot of partitions?) or the standard procedure listed in the Veracrypt documentation will do what I have explained in the first post?
        
        https://www.veracrypt.fr/en/VeraCrypt%20Hidden%20Operating%20System.html
        
        If so do I just create 4 partitions and encrypt them individually?
        
        P1. Decoy OS
        P2. Decoy files & documents
        P3. Hidden OS
        P4. Hidden files & documents
        
        P1 & P2 would have the same password so that P2 mounts automatically with the Decoy OS
        
        P3 & P4 would have the same password so that P4 mounts automatically with the Hidden OS
        
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        Alex - 2019-03-31
        
        There is discussion :
        https://sourceforge.net/p/veracrypt/discussion/technical/thread/aaeeb26b/
        
        docs:
        https://sourceforge.net/p/veracrypt/discussion/technical/thread/aaeeb26b/10df/attachment/HiddenOS.pdf
        https://sourceforge.net/p/veracrypt/discussion/technical/thread/aaeeb26b/e4ee/attachment/Veracrypt%20hidden%20OS%20on%20EFI%20for%20dummies.pdf
        https://sourceforge.net/p/veracrypt/discussion/technical/thread/aaeeb26b/c278/d6f9/attachment/EFI_hiddenOS_v2.0.pdf
        
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