I have a late 2012 iMac.
The context of my question is -had high Sierra until last week, erased HD last week and installed Catalina. Decided to downgrade to Mojave. Erased HD again, but I think that it was formatted as type APFS (not aware that Catalina creates a 2nd partition and that there is something else to do other than select disk and click erase), ended up in internet recovery mode somehow, had to install 10.8 and upgraded to Mojave from there. Once Mojave was installed, i noticed that the HD’s type was APFS.
By now I thought that I did not erase the HD completely after Catalina. I wanted to erase the HD again, initially could not select macOS extended as the type, but after research I was able to do so by showing all devices in disk utility and selecting the actual disk, and not the container or volume within.
Now I was able to erase the HD including all of the partitions and select macOS extended (journaled) as the type.
Made a fresh install of Mojave and after install the HD’s type is APFS.
Does this matter?I’ve read that for older HDs (mine was included with the iMac), it’s recommended to use macOS extended.
Did I do something wrong along the way?
After trying to look into this, I thought that the problem came from Catalina’s partitions and/or my lack of knowledge when trying to downgrade, but does this happen with Mojave as well?
is it worth keeping high sierra to keep macOS extended journaled? or am I good with an HDD with the type as APFS with Mojave?
The context of my question is -
By now I thought that I did not erase the HD completely after Catalina. I wanted to erase the HD again, initially could not select macOS extended as the type, but after research I was able to do so by showing all devices in disk utility and selecting the actual disk, and not the container or volume within.
Now I was able to erase the HD including all of the partitions and select macOS extended (journaled) as the type.
Made a fresh install of Mojave and after install the HD’s type is APFS.
Does this matter?
Did I do something wrong along the way?
After trying to look into this, I thought that the problem came from Catalina’s partitions and/or my lack of knowledge when trying to downgrade, but does this happen with Mojave as well?
is it worth keeping high sierra to keep macOS extended journaled? or am I good with an HDD with the type as APFS with Mojave?
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