Yes, Journalling is turned on automatically by the 10.3 installer. I went to WWDC and installed the 10.3 preview; it's fairly nice, though not perfectly stable yet, as is to be expected for a beta. Of course, it's worth mentioning that by "not perfectly stable," I mean "more stable than OS 9, but less stable than OS X." ;-) Alex <alex at fotomotion.net> writes: > On the issue of going to 10.3 I noticed that in Panther the default > disk format is "Mac OS Extended (Journaled)," with the only other > option being UFS. > Does anyone on the list now if the standard Mac OS Extended format can > be upgraded to the Journaled format without an initialising the HD? Kynan Shook kshook at mac.com http://homepage.mac.com/kshook/index.html