Hi all,
I need to format a volume on the internal HDD as unallocated -- so completely uninitialised. It's a partition rather than an entire disk. You could easily do it in Yosemite, but every time I try to delete the partition in El Cap it just wants to resize it.
Is there a Terminal command that can do this? I've tried most of the diskutil commands but haven't had any luck.
Alternatively, if there's any way I can format it as GPT, that would be just as good.
I'd be ever indebted to anybody who could help me.
Thank you for any suggestions or assistance!
[doublepost=1456412537][/doublepost]S'ok, I figured it out. I was using the diskutil eraseVolume, but was doing /dev/disk0/disk0s4 and I should've just done /dev/disk0s4 instead.
I need to format a volume on the internal HDD as unallocated -- so completely uninitialised. It's a partition rather than an entire disk. You could easily do it in Yosemite, but every time I try to delete the partition in El Cap it just wants to resize it.
Is there a Terminal command that can do this? I've tried most of the diskutil commands but haven't had any luck.
Alternatively, if there's any way I can format it as GPT, that would be just as good.
I'd be ever indebted to anybody who could help me.
Thank you for any suggestions or assistance![doublepost=1456412537][/doublepost]S'ok, I figured it out. I was using the diskutil eraseVolume, but was doing /dev/disk0/disk0s4 and I should've just done /dev/disk0s4 instead.