Can I convert a volume from journaled to non journaled without formatting it?

I have an external hard drive with HFS+ journaled. I have read that for some intrinsic reason, on a Linux machine I will not be able to write on such disk (while I am already able to read from it), as long as it is "journaled". However, I read that the Linux system would be able to read and write on it if it was HFS+ non-journaled.

So, this is the motivation of the question: can I just convert the filesystem from HFS+ journaled to HFS+ non-journaled without formatting (and loosing all the data)?

-- Addendum: from comments I understand that I can mount the journaled volume with some special tool, from the command line, and make it writable. However the accepted answer allows the Linux system to mount the volume automatically: much better for a lazy guy like me ;)

Yes you can with the terminal command :

diskutil disablejournal diskxsy

where diskxsy is to be adapted with the correct values of your hfs external partition.