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terminal-disk-erase-macOS.md

Erase/Formating a Disk/Volume from Terminal/Command Line in Mac OS X

diskutil eraseDisk FILE_SYSTEM DISK_NAME_GOES_HERE /dev/DiskNodeIdentifider diskutil eraseVolume FILE_SYSTEM VOLUME_NAME_GOES_HERE /dev/DiskNodeIdentifider

File system:

  • JHFS+ - Mac OS Extended Journaled
  • HFS+ - Mac OS Extended
  • FAT32 - MS-DOS
  • ExFAT - ExFAT

Nice link: https://www.applegazette.com/mac/pro-terminal-commands-using-diskutil/

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