Partitioned USB disk on Airport Extreme n?

Since the new base stations are not in users' hands yet, I hope someone can give me some thoughts on it.
I would like to use one of my Lacie D2 drives with a new base station, but will need to partition the drive for internal reasons. Any thoughts on what a partitioned drive might present, i.e. will only 1 partition be visible, or will all partitions mount by default?
Any thoughts appreciated
Hannes
15" MBP 2.33GHz, 2.3DC PM, FWP2407   Mac OS X (10.4.8)   too many ipods

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