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How to disable journaling on a HFS+ volume

Mac OS X’s native file system (HFS+) supports journaling, a feature that is enabled by default on all new volumes. Journaling is a very nice feature as it allows a quick recovery of the file system’s status should anything bad happen to the machine — e.g. a power failure or a crash. With a journaled file system, the operating system can easily undo or redo the last operations executed on the disk without losing meta-data, effectively avoiding a full file system check.

April 9, 2007 · Tags: <a href="/tags/fragmentation">fragmentation</a>, <a href="/tags/hfs">hfs</a>, <a href="/tags/journal">journal</a>, <a href="/tags/macos">macos</a>
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