macOS Sierra version 10.12.2 on MacBook Pro mid 2014
I am attempting to disable journaling on an external hard drive, using disk utility in MacOS Sierra. Holding down OPTION key and choosing Disk Utility-->File drop down menu does not give me the choice. Also Enable Journaling choice in the drop down menu is grayed out. Disk Info indicates that the disk is Mac OS Extended (Journaled). Your help is greatly appreciated.
You've probably already figured the solution out, or just moved on, but I had the same problem and this is how I resolved it; by using 'diskutil' instead of 'Disk Utility'.
Launch Terminal (/Applications/Utilities/Terminal) and type:
diskutil list
From the list find the partition you want to remove journaling (e.g. /dev/disk3s2). If you are having a hard time finding the device name using 'diskutil' launch Disk Utility, select the drive you want to turn off journaling and in the information at the bottom you'll see "Device: disk3s2". With that you can use the command below, just make sure to add "/dev/" before that string.
With the device name/path in hand now enter this command (replacing the path listed below with yours):
diskutil disableJournal /dev/disk3s2
Now launching Disk Utility you'll see the drive is no longer journaled.
Note: You don't need to use 'sudo' but must have ownership permissions to the drive.
You've probably already figured the solution out, or just moved on, but I had the same problem and this is how I resolved it; by using 'diskutil' instead of 'Disk Utility'.
Launch Terminal (/Applications/Utilities/Terminal) and type:
diskutil list
From the list find the partition you want to remove journaling (e.g. /dev/disk3s2). If you are having a hard time finding the device name using 'diskutil' launch Disk Utility, select the drive you want to turn off journaling and in the information at the bottom you'll see "Device: disk3s2". With that you can use the command below, just make sure to add "/dev/" before that string.
With the device name/path in hand now enter this command (replacing the path listed below with yours):
diskutil disableJournal /dev/disk3s2
Now launching Disk Utility you'll see the drive is no longer journaled.
Note: You don't need to use 'sudo' but must have ownership permissions to the drive.
I'm in the same boat, unfortunately this work around didn't work for me. I got the error message "An error occurred journaling the file system: This operation requires a disk that contains a file system (-69829)". Any thoughts?
Can not disable external drive Journaling with Sierra disk Utility
