How to turn off filevault...help

My son turned this on in his powerbook and now can't get it to deactivate. It keeps requesting the need for 4000GB of space to turn it off.
Any ideas?

Ug...
this is all i got...
sorry
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=152354
May i suggest a restart?

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I would like to turn off FileVault (prior to fitting larger internal HD in my G4 PwrBk).
I have carefully followed instructions in the above article which falters at step 19, because the new Sparse Disk Image of my Home folder, created on an external HD, is 23GB in size and there is only 9Gb left on my resident laptop HD. This is precisely the problem the above procedure is supposed to get around!
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There can't really be "4000 GB" of free space needed, and so if you see that message it may instead indicate some system error. If that is the case then there might actually BE enough free space on the HD, and it may be that situation that the support article is trying to remedy. The method given, which doesn't delete the old FV data before importing the new data, doesn't otherwise make sense, as you say.
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