June 1, 201313 yr 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?
June 1, 201313 yr 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.
June 2, 201313 yr Author It is now showing that I have zero free space on the disk after performing those commands.
June 2, 201313 yr It is now showing that I have zero free space on the disk after performing those commands. Did you reboot?
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