Journaled?

Is the only way to make a drive not journaled to erase it?

Absolutely not Gabe, i believe such utilities as 'Cocktail' (which is basically a slick GUI for some handy little Unix commands) will allow you to turn off and on journalling without erasing your drive.

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You can do it in Disk Utility by holding down option when you select File. I did it in 10.4 but I am on 10.3 right now so I can't confirm which menu option it is.
ak

Yup it's option-File menu. Nice one!

What is the advantage of being "non-journaled"?

Thanks.

Harry

I can't seem to search the Apple support site right now but there is a document that spells it out. The upshot is that journaling requires some drive access and activity to maintain the index in case of a crash. If you are running close to the bandwidth limit of your drive, turning off journaling may give you a bit more overhead. Only recommended for media drives and any drives in which read/write performance is paramount.

That's a rough paraphrase of the apple doc. They do use all the same qualifiers though: may, might, could etc.

Many thanks for your informative reply.

Best

Harry