JHZR2
Staff member
Ive formatted external SSDs as APFS. But I just got an external 5TB USB drive, and it will not format as APFS. It came formatted as NTFS, and after the first failure, it shows as Mac Journaled formatting. But I think Id like APFS, as it seems like its better at preventing/avoiding corruption.
Disk utility tells me the following:
Partitioning disk “WD My Passport 260D Media” (disk2)
Running operation 1 of 1: Erase “My Passport” (disk2s2)…
Unmounting disk
Erasing
Initialized /dev/rdisk2s2 as a 5 TB case-insensitive HFS Plus volume with a 385024k journal
Mounting disk
Creating a new empty APFS Container
Unmounting Volumes
The volume “My Passport” on disk2s2 couldn’t be unmounted because it is in use by process 167 (fseventsd)
Couldn’t unmount disk. : (-69888)
Operation failed…
Any ideas?
Disk utility tells me the following:
Partitioning disk “WD My Passport 260D Media” (disk2)
Running operation 1 of 1: Erase “My Passport” (disk2s2)…
Unmounting disk
Erasing
Initialized /dev/rdisk2s2 as a 5 TB case-insensitive HFS Plus volume with a 385024k journal
Mounting disk
Creating a new empty APFS Container
Unmounting Volumes
The volume “My Passport” on disk2s2 couldn’t be unmounted because it is in use by process 167 (fseventsd)
Couldn’t unmount disk. : (-69888)
Operation failed…
Any ideas?