External Drive Questions

[hitshack]

A couple of questions.
When formatting an external firewire drive for backup only, do you want to use journaling?
In disc utility the drive and the volume show up in the window.
When repairing permissions do you repair them on the drive or on the volume or both?
If you need to erase and reformatt, do you erase the drive or the volume?
Thanks.

[hitshack]

Anyone?

[JGuth]

yes journaling, cause you may want to use it with PT in a pinch
I format/erase the drive-I don't think it matters though
Permissions can only be repaired on your boot volume
Disk repair can be on the drive or volume, again I don't think it matters unless there are multiple partitions

[mixer]

if you are in pt7 use journaling...in 5&6 and below they recommended not to use it