Reformatting, but should I choose to format as Extended (Journaled) or Unix?

[Ryvius]

Two options, the Mac OS Extended (Journaled) and then Unix File System. Did a few searches and didn't see any discussions here, so I was curious as to what was best.

Thanks,
Ryvius

 

[stoid]

What are you installing?

Mac OS X - Extended (Journaling)
Linux/Unix - Unix File System

I may be wrong, but Mac OS X won't work if installed (won't install?) on a UFS drive. Likewise, a Unix/Linux system won't function on an Extended (Journaling) drive.

 

[Ryvius]

Reformatting my 12" powerbook's hardrive to see if it'll fix all the catastrophic crap that's been happening to it lately.

 

[Sun Baked]

Did you try running fsck -y and Disk First Aid until they fixed all the problems, then try booting into safe mode?

Format of the drive really only fixes the really ****ed HD problems... for the times the file/catalog problems are really really bad and aren't fixed by fsck -y/DFA or the third party drive repair suites.

 

[Mechcozmo]

Before you reformat....

Follow the instructions in thread. But you don't need to zap the PRAM...

If that dosn't work, post back with WHAT dosn't work. We will help.

 

[Elan0204]

I'm assuming that your reformating is in relation to the problems we were discussing in this thread. If so, you want to reformat using Mac OS Extended (Journaled).

 

[bousozoku]

Unless you have a very specific need for UNIX compatibility, don't choose UFS. You cannot run Carbon applications from it because it does not support traditional Mac OS dual-fork files.

 

[Westside guy]

I believe that all Apple apps (native OS X apps, anyway) will now run on UFS. That didn't used to be the case. However there are two problems with UFS. The first is that OS X apparently takes a performance hit when the disk format is UFS. Second, some third-party apps will not run on UFS, even though there's no good reason for that. One of the Microsoft apps I have - either Office v.X or Virtual PC 6.1 - will not work properly on UFS. I used to have my /Users directory on a UFS partition and found that the app (I'm pretty sure it was VPC) gave me a warning when I tried to save to that partition.

 

[Flynnstone]

I think the issue with UFS vs extended is:
UFS is case sensitive and case preserving. No resource fork.
Mac Extended is case insensitive and case preserving.

Bottom line is unless you have a very good reason to need UFS, format to Mac extended,