[HM] Trying to initialize an external drive

Duane Murphy duanemurphy at mac.com
Sun Sep 4 20:42:44 PDT 2005


--- At Sun, 4 Sep 2005 20:37:13 -0700, Jane Sprando wrote:

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

Journaled is (theoretically) a way of restoring the files in the file
system if something goes awry. Journalling is essentially writing the
instructions that were used to change a file.

Here is an explanation from Apple <http://docs.info.apple.com/
article.html?artnum=107249>.

 ...Duane



More information about the HomeMac mailing list