Need to move pictures to an external drive.

can anyone advise me on setting a partion to an extrnal drive? I want to move pictures permantly to external drive so i can make room on my macbook. When I export pictures from iphoto (4,000 pictures), the folder on the extrnal drive has 798 mb. What's up? What am I doing wrong?
Im running 10.6.8 and increased memory to maximium.Macbook  2.16 GHz intel Core 2 Duo

I am confused by your post. Have you already done this and want to know why the folder is 798 mb, or are you asking for advice on how to partition the drive so you can move the pics? If you plan to partition you must do it before you move the Library.
Here is a guide on how to partition the drive:
http://www.macworld.com/article/1159150/partitionharddrive.html
Here is a guide on how to move the library:
http://basics4mac.com/article.php/move_iphoto_lib

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