I just hooked up a new external Seagate 5TB HDD, reformatted it Mac OS Extended, Journaled, and repartitioned it to have 1 GUID partition. All's well with that.
Mount Point : /Volumes/Untitled 2 Format : Encrypted Logical Partition Capacity : 5 TB (5,000,265,859,072 Bytes) Available : 5 TB (4,998,959,538,176 Bytes) Used : 1.31 GB (1,306,320,896 Bytes) Owners Enabled : No Number of Folders : 19 Number of Files : 66 Next, I turned on encryption. This made the drive *very* busy, and it's been chugging away for about 4 hours now! Surely there's no need to encrypting the formatting, so what on earth is it doing? The only files on the drive were placed there by OS X for the default Spotlight DB. I had plans to restore my other failing external HDD to this new one today, but I was hoping to have a quiescent drive... Can someone explain why encrypting an empty drive should take hours and hours? -Carl _______________________________________________ MacOSX-talk mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
