Need Terminal Command to Erase External HD
partition for the Time Machine and the other for SuperDuper. Something happened
when the Disk Utility made the partitions. Now the two empty partitions show up
on the desktop but the Disk Utility cannot do anything. I suspect the directory is
hosed. The DU cannot Repair or even Erase the external drive. The DU hangs (does
not respond) and I have to use Force Quit. FYI, DU fails when it tried to unmount
the partitions.
I am not very skilled in terminal commands and would appreciate some specific
commands to Erase the external WD hard drive. When I open the terminal it has
me at the user level. What is the command to view the external drive, then what
command is needed to ERASE it. Once erased I think the Disk Utility should be
able to do its thing.
All of this needed to create a Time Machine backup drive
24" iMac 2.4 GHz-4 GB and 13-Inch MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.3)