Turning off HFS+ journaling
AJ Ashton <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.linux.gentoo.ppc |
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I would like to install Gentoo to a small partition on my iMac G5, preferably without killing OS X. In the Gentoo handbook, "Preparing the Disks" it says: "Warning: parted is able to resize partitions. On the Installation CD there are patches included to resize HFS+ filesystem. Unfortunately it is risky to resize HFS+ journaled filesystems, be sure to switch off journaling in Mac OS X first and make sure to run a disk checking tool after the resize." In Disk Utility I can only find out how to turn journaling on, not off. Is there some other way to do this? (Console command, etc?) I am running OS X 10.4.2. If there is no way to turn off journalling, how dangerous is resizing a journaled partition? (What am I risking? Data loss? A broken system?) I have backed up my most important data, but I would like to keep the system intact if possible. -- AJ Ashton -- [email protected] mailing list