Simple Way To Create An Encrypted Mountable Disk On OSXSimple Way To Create An Encrypted Mountable Disk On OSX

I needed a simple encrypted partition for some my Mac laptop. After a bit of searching around, I realised that this is actually a built in feature in OSX. To create/use an encrypted partition perform the following steps :

Applications/Utility

launch Disk Utility

Select New Image

Give the image a name, size and select AES for encryption.

Then set a password for the disk. Make sure you do not select the Remember Password option as this means the partition can be automatically mounted.

The drive image will then be created.

To mount the drive select the image in finder and double click it - enter the password and the driver is then available.

Simply select the eject icon to then remover the image.

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