Just my opinion, but I think it would be better if you jsut had a third partition that both sytems could write to. There's something about two OSes wrting to each others' boot partitions that I don't like.
To (not) answer your question, I'm not sure. It might require reformatting the drive, but I'm not sure.
hmm....there's an option under "file" in disk utility that is "disable journaling" but its grayed out. i just want to be able to share all the "built-in" folders that OS X makes: documents, movies, music, all that stuff.
i realize there are ways around it, but sharing one structure would be the easiest way around it.
You are barking up the wrong tree. Like any other journaled filesystem there is provisions for it being used while not jornaled. It will simply mark the journal as being invalid and start a new one. You are loosing the benefit of the jounal, but it will not get in the way.
Yeah - if one of the arguments to a command has spaces in it ("OS X"), then you need to either quote it or use the escape character ("\\") before the spaces. Otherwise the "diskutil" command thinks you are giving it two arguments ("OS" and "X") and throws an error, namely to list out the brief instructions for the command.
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To (not) answer your question, I'm not sure. It might require reformatting the drive, but I'm not sure.
i realize there are ways around it, but sharing one structure would be the easiest way around it.
diskutil list
to get the device name for that drive.
Then try
diskutil disableJournal <device>
where <device> is the name of the volume, e.g. /dev/disk1
and yes, i'm sure that there is journaling enabled at this point.
that gives me an unable to perform error.
and yes, i'm sure that there is journaling enabled at this point.
You might need to prefix the command with sudo.
Did the first command work? I.e., give you the list of volumes?
Why do you think that Journaling is getting in you way?
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=3388320
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=3388320
wait, i think i may have just gotten it.
i was doing:
sudo diskutil disableJournal OS X
(because "OS X" is the name of my OS X partition)
but then I tried it with "/" (as it's the mountpoint) and supposedly it worked. i'll check later and report back (time for bed now.)
here's a Terminal readout for anyone interested:
dmber's-computer:~ dmber$ sudo diskutil disableJournal OS X
Password:
Disk Utility Tool
Usage: diskutil [enableJournal|disableJournal]
[Mount Point|Disk Identifier|Device Node]
Enable or disable journaling on a mounted HFS Extended volume.
Ownership of the affected disk is required.
Example: diskutil enableJournal /
dmber's-computer:~ dmber$ sudo diskutil disableJournal /
Journaling has been disabled on /
dmber-computer:~ dmber$
("dmber" has pretty obviously been substituted for my computer's real name)
sudo diskutil disableJournal "OS X"
or
sudo diskutil disableJournal OS\\ X