I'm formatting a new external hard drive for video editing and I need the format to be Mac OS Extended, but it's only giving me options to be Journaled. Anyone know how to fix?
Mid-2012 Macbook Pro
OS X Yosemite 10.10.3
2 TB Western Digital (Black)
Why don't you want it to be journaled?
Looks like expected behavior to me. I've never seen non journaled as an option.
I'm using the drive strictly for video editing, and you're supposed to have it non-journaled when using a drive for that purpose.
Journaling is essential for OS disks (boot drives), but for disks used for video media, used for editing purposes, Journaling is not advised, as it can affect the speed of data being written. For video media (scratch) drives you would want to select the Mac OS Extended, no journaling.
Journaling only affects the speed of either writing to or modifying a file, it has no effect on the read speed of files. If you're writing a lot of data, for for a long period of time, like capturing video, the write speed of the data will slow down, as the Journaling record keeps updating it's self.
(http://www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage/formatting_hd_mac_stone.html)
The option for OS Extended without journalling was present in Snow Leopard, 10.6.8, but is not present in Mavericks. I don't know about the systems in between. I'm afraid your only options are to put up with journalling or find a Snow Leopard (or possibly Lion/Mountain LIon) Mac and format it there.
Highlight the partition you want journaling disabled on (this is after you've already formatted the partition for Mac OS Extended (Journaled) ). Hold the Option key and click the File menu. The Option key allows Disable Journaling to show as a menu choice.
Highlight the disk drive in Disk Utility, hold down the Option key while selecting, "File'" in the menu, select, "Disable Journaling."
You beat me by a minute.
Ha! Once again Apple hides a facility by moving it away from a perfectly logical place.
Actually, it's been that way for quite some time. Here is a link where they were talking about it in 2009:
Thanks a bunch!
You beat me by a minute.
Don't ya' hate that? You spend the time putting together a nice response that hadn't already been mentioned while you were typing, and then there it is after you post. 🙂
Ha! Once again Apple hides a facility by moving it away from a perfectly logical place.
You have to wonder why they do that? Especially something that simple. Was it really necessary to hide it? Or hiding Save As under the Option key?
Formatting external drive and there's no option to do Mac OS Extended (non-journaled)
