[HM] Trying to initialize an external drive

[Jane Sprando]

What does the journaled mean in <<Mac OS X extended and journaled>>? I
didn't find that in the choices.

jane


> From: Tony Johansen <tjoh7019 at bigpond.net.au>
> Reply-To: "A place to discuss Macintosh Computers in the home."
> <homemac at listserver.themacintoshguy.com>
> Date: Sun, 04 Sep 2005 16:53:16 +1000
> To: "A place to discuss Macintosh Computers in the home."
> <homemac at listserver.themacintoshguy.com>
> Subject: Re: [HM] Trying to initialize an external drive
> 
> On 4/9/2005 12:43 PM, "Duane Murphy" <duanemurphy at mac.com> wrote:
> 
>> --- At Sat, 3 Sep 2005 14:19:20 -0700, Jane Sprando wrote:
>> 
>>> So..... What am I doing wrong? This should be so easy and I feel dumb! I
>>> went to Apple support, but it doesn't tell me how to initialize!
> 
>> By the way, if the drive showed up on the Desktop, you probably didn't
>> need to do anything, but maybe it was formatted for Windows, so erasing
>> is a good idea.
> 
> LaCie HD come formatted with FAT 32 which OS X is able to use and is best
> when sharing the HD between Macs and PCs. Consequently many sales people
> will tell you (mine did) that it is already formatted for Mac.
> 
> Not true, while Mac can use the Windows format, it works much more
> efficiently in Mac OS X extended and journaled.
> 
> Having learned this via a similar false start, I suspect that LaCie does a
> very poor job of communicating these things to end users.
> 
> Tony
>