150 Appendix A Preparing Disks for Installing Mac OS X Server
For information about using Installer, Server Assistant, and Disk Utility during
installation, see Chapter 2, “Installing Mac OS X Server.” For information about
controlling Disk Utility remotely from another computer with Apple Remote Desktop
(which you can purchase separately) before installing remotely, see Server
Administration (described in “Mac OS X Server Administration Guides” on page 144).
Erasing with the Installer
You can erase the target disk while using the Mac OS X Server Installer. When you
select the target disk in the Installer, you can also select an option to have the target
disk erased during installation. You have a choice of two disk formats:
 Mac OS Extended (Journaled) is recommended and is the most common format for a
Mac OS X Server startup volume.
 Mac OS Extended (Case-sensitive, Journaled) is worth considering if you are planning to
have your server host a conventional website with static web content instead of
group wiki websites. A case-sensitive volume can host static web content with a
more direct mapping between files and URLs.
WARNING: Before partitioning a disk, creating a RAID set, or erasing a disk or
partition on a server, preserve any user data you want to save by copying it to
another disk.
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