How is my Hard Drive Formatted?

Someone told me "MAMP Pro doesn't work on "Mac OS Extended (Case-sensitive, Journaled)"-formatted volumes." So how do I know if my hard drive has been formatted like this? If it has, I assume the only solution is to reformat the hard drive, wiping out all my programs and files, right?
Thanks.

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Sorry about that. You were quite correct.
when you say journaled, do you mean OS Extended (Journaled)? If so, this is the default and therefore not case-sensitive.
I think
Best of luck

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