disk journaling On or Off?

[Jeff Carpenter]

I don’t think it matters if it’s on your system drive. It should probably be turned off on your media drives, however.

I don’t know of any way to turn it off without re-formatting. Before you do that, though, have you checked all the energy settings in the computer’s prefrences? Make sure that everything’s turned to stay on forever.

[Oliver Busch]

Journaling can be toggled on/off with Apple’s “Disk Utilty” (/Applications/Utilities/Disk Utility). To toggle journaling on the startup disk, you need to boot off an external volume (CD, FireWire etc.).

In my understanding, journaling for media drives should be disabled.
I read an article somewhere about this issue but unfortunately can’t remember where (could have been XLR8YourMac, BareFeats or HD for Indies).
I also read somewhere (same article?) about problems with the automatic indexing service for Spotlight in 10.4 Tiger.

Best regards, Oliver

[Rick Dolishny]

[Oliver Busch] “Journaling can be toggled on/off with Apple’s “Disk Utilty””

Where do you set journalling off within disk utility?

I find it under ‘erase’ and also under ‘raid’.

– R

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[Oliver Busch]

Sorry, but I forgot that the default buttons in Disk Utilities Button Bar doesnt show the “Disable Journaling” button (only “Enable journaling” should be visible). Customize the button bar, add the disable button and you should be ready to go.

Regards, Oliver

[David Davidson]

The performance hit on journaled drive is so infintesmal that for the benefits of protection, its smart to leave it on even for media drives.