I have an external hard drive that will be partitioned with two partitions, using GPT:
- ext4 filesystem on a dm-crypt-encrypted partition
- NTFS filesystem on an unencrypted partition
The ext4 filesystem will be mounted only from computers that I control, so I have no concerns about it.
The NTFS filesystem will be mounted by various Windows machines. At least in the past, Windows didn’t support multiple partitions. Does it matter which partition comes first? Is there a way to prevent Windows from offering the user to format the encrypted partition?