How to convert a case-sensitive Mac HFS+ partition into a case-insensitive one<article>
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<p>Apple has long offered two versions of the same HFS+ partition formatting scheme used to create a filesystem for a Mac-mountable volume: “Mac OS Extended (Journaled)” and “Mac OS Extended (Case-sensitive, Journaled)”. With the addition of APFS formatting, that flavor is also available in case sensitive and insensitive versions. What a difference that “case-sensitive” makes!</p><p>Case-sensitive filesystems can allow multiple files to have the same human-readable name using different capitalization. <code>Blue dolphin.pdf</code> and <code>blue dolphin.pdf</code> and <code>bLuE dOlPhIn.PDF</code> are all considered different items to a case-sensitive filesystem. With the opposite, a
case-insensitive filesystem, the default option for macOS in HFS+ and APFS, those files can’t co-exist: They’re all effectively the same name with a different appearance.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/3440258/how-to-convert-a-case-sensitive-mac-hfs-partition-into-a-case-insensitive-one.html#jump">To read this article in full, please click here[/url]</p></section></article>
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How to convert a case-sensitive Mac HFS+ partition into a case-insensitive one
