Convert Hfs To Apfs

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Convert Hfs To Apfs

I have a 2017 5K iMac running Mojave 10.14.6. It has a 2 TB Fusion drive internally formatted as HFS+. FileVault is not enabled, but I wish to do so. Will the disk have its format changed to APFS if I enable FileVault?

  • Installed 10.13b8 and was not given the option to upgrade to APFS on install. System worked fine under HFS after install. Booted into recovery console and convert to APFS was greyed out. Made sure drive was unmounted still grey. Mounted drive and ran first aid through recovery console.
  • Advantages of Converting to APFS. APFS offers a ton of benefits that you don’t find in HFS+. Moreover, it is also the recommended file system for SSDs and flash drives. The following are some of the advantages that you can avail of by converting to APFS. Fast Duplication and Copying: APFS is a lot faster than HFS+. It can copy and duplicate.
  • One of the notable features of macOS High Sierra is the introduction of the APFS file system. APFS is a modern file system that replaces the extraordinarily aged HFS+, introduced in 1998.

My recollection is that the disk was originally formatted as HFS+ from the factory and when I turned on FileVault, the format changed to APFS. Granted that was over a year ago, so I could be very off-base.

I want to prevent going to APFS again. The performance degraded to dismal levels. Now that I have reformatted as HFS+, it is surprisingly speedy.

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FileVault and APFS are two very different things; enabling one doesn’t enable (or necessitate) enabling the other.

FileVault is encryption - it scrambles, to put it simply - the contents of your drive with a known key. Specifically, it uses a 128bit AES encryption with a 256bit key. See Use FileVault to encrypt the startup Disk for additional details. You can encrypt JHFS+ formatted volumes as well as APFS volumes.

APFS (Apple File System) is simply Apple’s next generation file system. As far as encryption goes, it supports it natively unlike JHFS+.

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