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wonderspark

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How do I disable or reformat a RAID array so it is not journaled?

The RAID is at /volumes/12TB RAID6
And is designated disk6s2

I can't seem to figure out the syntax to make this work in terminal, and I don't want to screw up my other disks.

I didn't have this problem on Snow Leopard, but now on Mountain Lion, I can't get my regular HFS+

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By the way, I have been trying this:
diskutil eraseVolume HFS+ /volumes/"12TB RAID6" "RAID6" /dev/disk6s2

...and get
/volumes/12TB RAID6 does not appear to be a valid volume name for its file system

So I seem to be lacking proper syntax... help!
 

wonderspark

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Ok, so now:
diskutil eraseVolume HFS+ RAID6 /Volumes/12TB RAID6

...results in:
The third parameter does not appear to be "bootable" or "nonbootable"

This is a RAID via an Areca 1880ix-12 card that needs to be non-journaled. The volume was created on Snow Leopard, and since then I've gone to Mountain Lion, and it was fine until I rebuilt the array using Disk Utility which no longer offers non-journaled volume creation.
 
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