Turn "journalling" off on ext3: How to?

I'm an old Linux hand, having installed several versions with version
numbers below 1.0. I've been away from it for a while (still using it,
but less involved in keeping track of the day-to-day revisions of this
and that). I recently installed Knoppix on a laptop, and found that ext2
is not a filesystem choice. The choices are ext3, reiserfs, and jfs.

Now, my issue is that given the situation, I think that journalling is
unnecessary and, in fact, that it is causing me problems. So, I would
have preferred to install it as ext2, but, as stated, this was not an
option. Clearly, there are ways to do this by formatting a new
partition as ext2 and then copying everything over, but let's assume for
the time being that we'd rather not do that.

So, the question from the Subject line is:

Turn "journalling" off on ext3: How to?

Is there a way to turn off the journalling?
(Or is this something I really shouldn't be doing?)

.

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