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disable journaling on external hdd

I have a external drive that is used exclusively as a scratch drive for Final Cut Pro. I have no intention of booting nor is there an os on the drive.

When the drive was initially formatted in disc utility, journaling was enabled.

Can the drive have journaling disabled without a reformat and disturbing the existing data?

How is this done?

MBP, Mac OS X (10.5.8), 2.5 Intel core 2 duo

Posted on Mar 2, 2011 6:15 PM

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Posted on Mar 2, 2011 7:04 PM

Select the volume (the indented icon) in the left pane of Disk Utility, then hold down the option key and click on Disk Utility's File Menu.
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Mar 2, 2011 7:09 PM in response to magnumip

Shouldn't affect the data.





+To turn journaling on and off using Disk Utility:+

+1. Open Disk Utility (located in Applications/Utilities).+
+2. Select the volume to enable or disable journaling on.+
+3. To enable, click the Enable Journaling button or choose Enable Journaling from the File menu.+

+To disable journaling, choose Disable Journaling from the File menu.+

+_Note: In Mac OS X 10.4 and later, press Option to make Disable Journaling visible in the File menu._+


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disable journaling on external hdd

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