How to use MAC partition encryption?

How to use MAC partition encryption? For many Mac users who have a bear child in their home, it's not enough to set up a guest account. Although it can protect your system disk, it has no protection against other hard disk partitions. At this point, the partition encryption feature can come in handy. The following small compilation teaches you how to set the disk partition encryption function, protect the data in the MAC disk is not destroyed, the following is the detailed steps:

1. Locate and open the Finder in the dock bar;

2. Right-click the name of the partition in the sidebar;

3. Select "Encrypt ' XXX (partition name) '"

4. Enter the password, then enter it again, and finally set a password hint;

5. Click "Encrypt Disk".

The disk partition that you select is then encrypted, depending on the size of the disk and how much of it is in it. Once the encryption is complete, you can only see the contents of it by entering a pre-set password. When you use the master account, you can choose to add the password to the keychain to avoid repeating the input every time.