Re: Journaling - any benefits for a MacBook?

In article <4c032a6e$0$22856$2c56edd9@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, John Albert
<j.albert@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

I have never used journaling, ever, across multiple Macs,
drives, and partitions.

I am not certain, but I think a few things will not work
unless journaling is turned on initially.

Boot Camp?

Fortunately, journaling can usually be turned off later,
from Disk Utility.

Mark-
.

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