How can I disable journaling in El Capitan?

Andrew9813 wrote:

Thank You all for your help i just double checked over the diskutil list and i chose the wrong identifier disk0s2 and my drive identifier was disk1 and now my hard drive is not journaled.

Then that answers both of my questions.

Andrew9813 wrote:

Thank You all for your help i just double checked over the diskutil list and i chose the wrong identifier disk0s2 and my drive identifier was disk1 and now my hard drive is not journaled.

FWIW, I think you got the error message when using /dev/disk0s2 because your startup disk is set up using Core Storage (a way of creating virtual disks from one or more physical ones). Because of that, the physical disk "Apple_CoreStorage Macintosh HD 499.2 GB disk0s2" does not contain a file system, just like the error message said. The virtual disk "Apple_HFS Macintosh HD +498.9 GB disk1" does, which is why using "disk1" as the identifier works.

Confusing, is it not? 😕

(Edited for typos)

Andrew9813 wrote:

Hopefully they implement the file + option to disable and enable journaling in the disk utility app.

They probably won't, since a journaled file system is resistant to data loss caused by system problems. You should not disable journaling on an HFS+ file system unless absolutely necessary.

Andrew9813 wrote:

I Only do temporarily to scan my computer for viruses with product called fixmestick. Enable when done scanning.

Perhaps you should ask them to make a product that doesn't require you to alter your system in order to work?

Does it ever really find anything that needs to be cleaned?

I've tried things said by jmfromanderlecht. Here is a screen shot or what i have tried in terminal from before and with the suggestions.

How about running Linux is a virtual machine?

VMware Fusion

Parallels

VirtualBox

Thank You all for your help i just double checked over the diskutil list and i chose the wrong identifier disk0s2 and my drive identifier was disk1 and now my hard drive is not journaled.

Yes I know how to enable journal command In disk utility app and terminal.

Yeah I found it a bit confusing.

Hopefully they implement the file + option to disable and enable journaling in the disk utility app.

I Only do temporarily to scan my computer for viruses with product called fixmestick. Enable when done scanning.

Hasn't found anything yet.

for the fixmestick that the only way for the usb fixmestick program to scan Mac computer.

I Found that same article about El Capitan. I may not use the product anymore since you said about SIP and I use trusted sources.

Thank You for your help today.

The "Win32" identification says it is a Windows trojan.

Reformat the disk using diskutil

diskutil eraseDisk HFS+ Name /dev/disk4

If you want it journaled, use JHFS+ instead.