tiny333 Posted June 12, 2007 Share Posted June 12, 2007 hi bit boring this one sorry i have an external drive i have been working on i have just learnt that maybe my bad track counts are because its journaled..? does anyone know how to turn this off? apple say this.... Disabling journaling via diskutil You can disable journaling from the Terminal application by using diskutil. Follow these steps: 1. Log in as an Admin user to the server whose disk you want to set up for journaling. 2. Make sure that no one is using the server. 3. Open Terminal (/Applications/Utilities/). 4. Execute the diskutil command, using the disableJournal option and identifying the volume for which you want journaling disabled. To disable journaling for the root volume, for example, you would execute: sudo /usr/sbin/diskutil disableJournal / To disable journaling for a volume called MyDisk, you would execute: sudo /usr/sbin/diskutil disableJournal /Volumes/MyDisk but i dont understand .. they seem to be talking pc to me ?? huh?? isnt there a nice pretty button someplace? do i need to reformate the disk? thanks tiny Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tiny333 Posted June 13, 2007 Author Share Posted June 13, 2007 if anyone has the same problem you go into disk utility and hold down option and look in the file menu... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Logic Pro Posted June 13, 2007 Share Posted June 13, 2007 if anyone has the same problem you go into disk utility and hold down option and look in the file menu... what is it for anyway? Spotlight is dead slow if not brain dead Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tiny333 Posted June 13, 2007 Author Share Posted June 13, 2007 what journaling? not quite sure some kind of backup .. rescue a crashed disk deal apple have started....apparently it slows the drive down and hence mucks up my track count... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Nahmani Posted June 13, 2007 Share Posted June 13, 2007 Journaling is a list of all changes on a drive's files. When restarting after a crash, Mac OS X reads the journal and rebuilds your system to the previous stable state. Journaling should be turned on on your system drive, and off on your audio drive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KJ Posted June 13, 2007 Share Posted June 13, 2007 Sorry but this doesn't make sense, journaling should protect your filesystem against corruption when i.e. you have a power failure. I can go into details here what journaling does exactly but the bottom line is that normally you should not turn this off. I don't know what you mean with bad track count, but if it means bad tracks on your disk, then you should be carefull because the disk could be dying. Journaling has nothing to do with spotlight. Journaling is a filesystem feature. Spotlight is an indexing service for metadata. edit: doh! David was a bit faster then me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tiny333 Posted June 13, 2007 Author Share Posted June 13, 2007 but it should be OFF on my audio drive right? which it wasnt so turning it off may help? and DISK TO SLOW may BACK off a bit? i just need 10 tracks at 88.2 on a firewire 400 port... *dreaming* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Nahmani Posted June 13, 2007 Share Posted June 13, 2007 Disabling it on your audio drive may increase performance a bit. If you don't know how to use the Terminal you can backup the whole content and reformat using Disk Utility. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KJ Posted June 14, 2007 Share Posted June 14, 2007 Yes theorically it should gain you some spead but jorunaling is done at a really deep level in OSX so practically you should not even notice this at all. Of course you are free to disable it but like david says, you should back up your data because data corruptions without journaling is a serious issue! You are better of trying to stream the data from an internal SATA disk or a FW800 disk. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
musick Posted June 14, 2007 Share Posted June 14, 2007 You are better of trying to stream the data from an internal SATA disk or a FW800 disk. Agree, with the speed and low price of disks nowadays it makes no sense to try to get (maybe) a few percent performance increase by turning of journaling.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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