I really hate APFS

[camelia]

Hello,

Finally after months I was able to make a bootable Usb stick, of macOS Mojave for my MBP 2012 with an spinning disk, and install it without issue.

But I have a question: BOTH volumes (Physical Device and Macintosh HD) have to be APFS Volumes?

Thanks
Camelia

 

[KeesMacPro]

Hi

This is correct as shown in your post.
The physical device :GUID partition map
The actual drive inside the container , formatted APFS.

 

[Mr.Blacky]

But why do you hate APFS?

 

[Wowfunhappy]

I wish Apple adopted ZFS in the mid-2000s. But they didn't, and HFS Plus was bad.

Remember how Disk Utility used to have a prominent button to "Repair Disk Permissions"? Doesn't that strike you as something that shouldn't have to exist with a sane file system?

 

[camelia]

Hi

This is correct as shown in your post.
The physical device :GUID partition map
The actual drive inside the container , formatted APFS.

Thank you

Just to confirm if I install an SDD in this same MBP, Will I see the same in Disk Utility?

Came

 

[KeesMacPro]

De nada!

Just to confirm if I install an SDD in this same MBP, Will I see the same in Disk Utility?

Afirmativo 🙂

 

[davidlv]

Thank you

Just to confirm if I install an SDD in this same MBP, Will I see the same in Disk Utility?

Came

After you install an SSD in that same MBP, you have 2 choices. Assuming you will boot up from that USB install disk, you can use Disk Utility to initialize the the new SSD as FHS+ or APFS. Despite Apple's insistence on APFS, Mojave runs quite well on HFS+, with one serious "Gotcha". You need to have a bootable APFS disk in order to get system updates.
I recommend using APFS with an SSD, as that file system was designed for use on SSDs. While APFS has improved since the initial versions, it is poorly designed for use with standard rotational hard drives - your current hardware. Many people have reported bad performance with APFS on HDs.
SSDs in the range of 500 GB to 1 TB are now affordable, not cheap but reasonable. Consider getting a Crucial MX500 500GB. It will speed up the whole machine!
If you also buy a USB HD enclosure, and install the new SSD in that first, temporarily, you can use Carbon Copy Cloner (CCC) to clone the current HD (free to use for a 1-month trail period) before you switch them around and install the SSD. There are many threads here on that install process. It is not difficult but you need the right tools.

 

[camelia]

But why do you hate APFS?

Why do you love APFS?