HFS+ w/ 10.13

TomDay
Release Candidate Programs Tester

I'm look at a smart group we have based on the boot volume type and seeing a high number of 2017 iMacs that have 10.13 on them but the EA is reporting "Journaled HFS+". Might be a really obvious easy answer but I figured any machine with 10.13 would have been formatted with APFS. What am I missing on this?

Thx, Tom

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afarnsworth
Contributor

Are the drives in the machines solid state or mechanical? The drive will only automatically convert if it is solid state if I remember correctly. If they are solid state was it possible you have the --converttoapfs NO flag set on your High Sierra installer?

There is the Terminal command diskutil apfs convert that also may be helpful in this situation

TomDay
Release Candidate Programs Tester

Ugggg how could I forget that! Thanks, yes they are mechanical! Makes sense now.