Password to Mount Partition on external?

Is there any way to password-protect a partition on an external HDD in Leopard, so that in effect, one cannot mount the volume without entering password. Since the volume is formatted as Mac OS extended, which is (as far as I know) unreadable by windows, I suppose the solution would just need to work with Mac machines.

Not directly, but you can do basically the same thing with an encrypted disk image if you don't need a bootable Mac OS X system to be protected.
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pyarch wrote:
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After my most recent full system update, I seem to e missing the ability to mount partitions, and drives, through Thunar.
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1. How to I partition the external drive for Mac?
2. If I insert my drive (not yet partitioned) in my MacBook for the first time and the MacBook automatically asks me if I want to use it for Time Machine, I'm assuming that I need to say "no" so that I can first partition it, right? If yes, then after partitioning it how do I set up the one partition for Time Machine?
3. If I have 640 GB external hard drive space and my MacBook has about 100GB of space, how much of the 640 should I allocate for Time Machine?
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coffeecoffee wrote:
Hi. I am going to be using an external hard drive (Western Digital - 640GB) on my MacBook for the first time and I think that I'd like to partition it so that part of it is for Time Machine and part of it can be used to just manually drag and drop my files (like any other USB external drive).
1. How to I partition the external drive for Mac?
select the whole drive (the model, not the name) in disk utility and click on the partition tab. set the number of partitions. set the partition scheme to GUID in options. set the format to mac os extended journaled. hit apply.
2. If I insert my drive (not yet partitioned) in my MacBook for the first time and the MacBook automatically asks me if I want to use it for Time Machine, I'm assuming that I need to say "no" so that I can first partition it, right? If yes, then after partitioning it how do I set up the one partition for Time Machine?
in system preferences->Time machine.
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