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I'm new in all this OS X stuff. I'm running OS X 10.5 Leopard.

I want to be able to access and modify my disk under Ubuntu. For that I was told that I needed to turn of journalling on that disk. I've opened the disk utility, but the only way I've found to change the formating was to erase it. I have a huge amount of data which I can't erase.

I've searched Google, but haven't found exactly what I wanted.

Is there any other way to change this option without having to erase it?

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diskutil disableJournal /Volumes/someVolume
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Sorry but the error persist. "An error occured journaling the filesystem: The underlying task reported failure on exit (-9972)" . I'm trying "diskutil disableJournal /Volumes/Time\ Machine/" with and without sudo. – maty_nz Nov 4 '10 at 5:42
Google says repair the drive with Disk Utility. – Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams Nov 4 '10 at 6:52
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diskutil disableJournal /Volumes/Macintosh HD
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