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a shell script to interactively hide/unhide a disk. =wiiunhide= was\n  built by readings its source.\n- [[https://code.google.com/archive/p/u-stealth/][u-stealth]] - the originator of this method.\n","project_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/projects/github.com%2Fbsdf%2Fwiiunhide","html_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/projects/github.com%2Fbsdf%2Fwiiunhide","lists_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/projects/github.com%2Fbsdf%2Fwiiunhide/lists"}