Stefan Monnier <monn...@iro.umontreal.ca> writes: > - Use an additional tiny dummy partition in which you can put any info > you like.
This seems to be what Microsoft likes to do. At least I had the pleasure of tossing a "Microsoft reserved" partition out from my desktop recently, I think the Windows 10 installer created that but didn't use it. It was just 16 MB of zeros in a very inconvenient location.