How to share TrueCrypted drive for OSX and Linux with write perms

Jan 21, '11 07:30:00AM

Contributed by: paczor

Let's say you have hard drive encrypted with TrueCrypt with HFS+ filesystem on it and you want to use it under both: OSX and Linux. That's no problem because TrueCrypt works great on both systems. But when you want to WRITE to such drive under Linux you'll get an error. That's because Linux do not support writing to journaled HFS. This is how to remove journaling from such drive.

Disabling journalingu on Mac is simple:

Disabling journaling on Linux is slightly more complicated. Open up a shell window and do the following (comments are in parentheses, the # is the prompt):

[crarko adds: I haven't tested this one. OK, it's a little obscure but it might help someone.]

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