ZipsServer Posted June 1, 2013 Share Posted June 1, 2013 I want to wipe a whole disk clean and I dont not need any of the information on the disk. I use this disk for Timemachine with my macbook and I want to start fresh. The old backups were turned into a .purgeable and I tried removing everything on the disk using the "rm" command. It showed that the command was running but it never ended. I gave it a full 24 hours before I cancelled the command. Is there a way to wipe the whole disk clean that doesnt take as long? Quote Link to comment
Joe L. Posted June 1, 2013 Share Posted June 1, 2013 Is there a way to wipe the whole disk clean that doesnt take as long? with array running, un-mount disk and then re-format it. (as an example, for disk 3 ) umount /mnt/disk3 mkreiserfs -q /dev/md3 Then reboot. Make sure you have the right disk. There is no easy way to un-format. Quote Link to comment
ZipsServer Posted June 2, 2013 Author Share Posted June 2, 2013 It is now showing that I have zero free space on the disk after performing those commands. Quote Link to comment
Joe L. Posted June 2, 2013 Share Posted June 2, 2013 It is now showing that I have zero free space on the disk after performing those commands. Did you reboot? Quote Link to comment
ZipsServer Posted June 3, 2013 Author Share Posted June 3, 2013 Yes I did. That fixed it. I apologize for the stupid question Quote Link to comment
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