How to not mount a partition at boot?

Hello,
I have read a solution here for the question above but it seems to be not working for me on my MBP 8.1 with OS X 10.8.2 (12C60)
I have a partition formatted to Mac OSX (Journaled, Encrypted) so my system prompts me for its password to unlock the partition at boot.
I'd like my system to don't attempt unlocking the partition at boot, but do it only when I open Disk Utility and click unlock.
So I created the /etc/fstab file as instructed in the topic I mentioned above. No effect at all. My system still keeps attempting to unlock the partition and prompts for the partition's password.
Perhaps I've missed something? Perhaps it does not work because the partition is encrypted?
Thx

According to this thread :
Go to /System/Library/CoreServices/SecurityAgentPlugins/
and remove the item DiskUnlock.bundle i.e. take it from that folder and store it somewhere safe, in case you need to add it back.
Restart et voila. No more prompting.
and/or
Run in Terminal:
sudo mkdir -p /System/Library/LaunchDaemons.Disabled
sudo mv /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.corestorage.corestoraged.plist /System/Library/LaunchDaemons.Disabled/com.apple.corestorage.corestoraged.plist
/Johan

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