How to hide your XPEnoboot USB drive from DSM
For anyone using xpenoboot on a USB stick, you may be aware that this boot-loader USB stick is mounted and visible within DSM.
On Xpenoboot, it is by default enumerated as /dev/sdu. The partition /dev/sdu1 is mount on /volumeUSB1/usbshare.
On a real Synology system, there is also a USB bootdrive embedded inside the chassis. However, I believe there is some check for specific VID/PID during the boot process that prevents a specific Synology USB bootdrive device from being enumerated.
Guys, I apologize for the bad /dev/synoboot1 mounting command in my original instruction.
Let me demonstrate the non-working and working method to mounting /dev/synoboot1 to a folder.
This method does NOT work!
Diskstation> mkdir -p /mountMe
Diskstation> mount -t vfat /dev/synoboot1 /mountMe
mount: mounting /dev/synoboot1 on /mountMe failed: Invalid argument
NOTE: for some reason, you cannot perform the mount command by declaring the full path of /dev/synoboot1.
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