Keeping my work HDs from other users

Is there a convenient way to prevent my spouse and my 9-year-old from accessing (and inadvertently screwing up) my work-related external drives?

" Oddly the drives I wanted to protect showed different ownership depending on which user was logged in. "
That's a sure sign that the "Ignore ownership on this volume" setting (in "Get Info" > "Ownership & Permissions") is enabled - everything is presented as if it has an ownership of "99:99" (the so-called "unknown" user), meaning items appear to be owned by the user trying to access the item. I'm not sure if any ownership changes made through "Get Info" while that checkbox is checked will take effect. Uncheck it before making any changes.
However, the weird thing about that setting is that in a lot of cases, it requires an "admin" password to disable but not to enable - ie. you don't need a password to give yourself acccess to other people's files, but you do to reinstate the distinctions. I'm not sure if this is intended behaviour or not, but it can make restricting access to external drives via permissions rather difficult...
Since it's only inadvertent changes made by your spouse and chile that you are worried about, you might be able to get away with at least establishing the ownership / permissions (hoping the "ignore" setting doesn't become an issue), telling them not to touch that drive (your "stiff lecture"), and making it "invisible" so that they are less likely to stumble across it by accident...<pre>tell application "System Events" to set visible of (choose folder) to false</pre>

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