Indeed. From the Get Info window —
Format: Mac OS Extended (Case-sensitive, Journaled)
Just as you surmised, although Pogue (p 262) left the "Case-sensitive" bit out of his note on the automatic reformatting of the drive. Pogue's parting comment in that note is: "Thoughtful, really."
Okay, Interesting... thanks.
I wonder if Pogue mentions 'case-sensitive' anywhere in that book (in the index perhaps). Because some apps (e.g., creative suite) have been known to react unfavorably if the
boot volume is formatted as such. But for a backup volume (and backup software), such sensitivity supposedly provides some benefit of sorts.
Just keep a mental note of this, because that external disk will act differently than the internal HD. E.g., on the external you can have a folder which contains these
separate files inside: "my notes.txt", "My Notes.txt", "mY nOtEs.TxT", etc., because it treats them as being different items. Whereas the HD won't allow all three to exist simultaneously in the same folder, as it regards them all to be identical (as per traditional Mac OS behavior since day one).
