Fiala06 Posted October 26, 2020 Share Posted October 26, 2020 (edited) I have a few drives I pulled out of my array and want to clear them before selling. When I use delete partition I just get a failed message. Any way around this? I've tried using fdisk /dev/.sdb and doesn't seem to work either. Edited October 26, 2020 by Fiala06 Quote Link to comment
JorgeB Posted October 26, 2020 Share Posted October 26, 2020 Please post output of: fdisk -l /dev/sdb Quote Link to comment
Fiala06 Posted October 26, 2020 Author Share Posted October 26, 2020 2 minutes ago, JorgeB said: Please post output of: fdisk -l /dev/sdb Quote Link to comment
JorgeB Posted October 26, 2020 Share Posted October 26, 2020 There's no partition, but try this: wipefs -a /dev/sdb1 then wipefs - a /dev/sdb them try to format. 1 Quote Link to comment
Fiala06 Posted October 26, 2020 Author Share Posted October 26, 2020 As soon as I did wipefs -a /dev/sdb1 The preclear button showed up and is now erasing. Thank you! 1 Quote Link to comment
emuhack Posted May 3, 2021 Share Posted May 3, 2021 On 10/26/2020 at 11:11 AM, JorgeB said: There's no partition, but try this: wipefs -a /dev/sdb1 then wipefs - a /dev/sdb them try to format. this helped me... thanks! Quote Link to comment
Salzgablah Posted May 29, 2022 Share Posted May 29, 2022 This is what I was looking for, helped me out as well. Thanks! Quote Link to comment
Whaler_99 Posted August 11, 2022 Share Posted August 11, 2022 Helped me as well. Quote Link to comment
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