Hidelinux

There's also an extension for Nautilus called nautilus-hide that will allow you to hide any file or folder with a simple right-click on them.

Press Alt + . (period) on your keyboard. Alternatively, navigate to the Control menu, select 'Hidden Files' or look for a similar option.

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There is no way to hide them automatically, but you can safely mark them all as hidden, if your filesystem supports that.

Create a file .hidden in the directory with the names of the files to be hidden (one name each line). Then add the following to your ~/.bashrc.

You put a dot ('.') in from of the file or foldername. It will hide the item unless you activate Show Hidden Files” via CMD+SHIFT+DOT('.').

I was wondering if there is any way to hide the linux partitions from Windows? I have Manjaro kde installed on my 128gb USB drive.

You can just go to your BIOS/UEFI settings selectively disable the port that the drive with your Linux install is connected to - this way it ...

To hide a file, just rename it with a leading dot; to unhide it, remove the dot. This method works with both graphical file managers and terminal commands.

To create a hidden file, all you have to do is save the file with a leading dot before the name. So, instead of zdnet.txt, the filename would be ...