Drive 10 & Panther Compatibility (and Journaling)

[Pat Ellis]

Hey there Albert,

You do not need to reformat your drives should you wish to
use Drive 10.  You can use Apple's Drive Utility to "Disable
Journaling", reboot using Drive 10 and run your optimisation.
Then boot back into Panther and run Drive Utility to re-enable
journaling.  Obviously it is not as convenient as having a utilitiy
that handles journaled volumes but at least it is still possible.

Patrick



>Message-Id: <5311B9BF-1581-11D8-8EE2-000A957E6BFA at mac.com>
>From: "Albert D'Amanda" <adamanda at mac.com>
>Subject: Re: [X-Apps] Drive 10 & Panther Compatibility
>Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2003 21:30:19 -0500


>With respect to <OPTIMIZE> , i believe there is a caveat to the above 
>statement that you may not be aware of.

>It would appear that Drive 10  V1.4.1 will not optimize a drive if the 
>drive has been formated with  Mac OS Extended(Journaled)

>  With  Drive 10  V1.4.1 , when selecting  Optimize Volume " a graphic 
>is displayed saying--" File System journaling has been enabled. While 
>you may analyze this volume, It is not available for optimization."

>How about that!
>In my case a real bummer!
>Panther's default installation formats the drive as "Mac OS Extended 
>(journaled)" which Apple has pushed as a big plus! And both my bootup 
>and backup drive(s ) have been installed/formated with "journaling".

>Is it possible that your "line of coders" can come up with a hack to 
>make your Optimization stuff work with journaling enabled ?

>As all of my hard drives are presently "performing to perfection", I am 
>very reluctant to go thru the reformat and reinstall process, etc.

>Thanks for your time

>albert

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