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Metal Storm

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Jun 24, 2006
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I canot delete some volumes i made other then in the terminal because I had formated them special for a dual boot that I am no longer going to do. I need terminal shell script to delete a volume. I looked it up online and in my linux books, but the syntex I use must be wrong. Please provide me with an example of the correct syntex to delete a volume thank you. I have worked with linux some, never mac. Thanks for your time.
 
This is as far as I can get and there is a syntax error.

Sudo diskutil eraseVolume disk0s3

or

sudo diskutil eraseVolume [MS-DOS FAT32] <disk0s3>
 
/dev/disk0
#: type name size identifier
0: GUID_partition_scheme *55.9 GB disk0
1: EFI 200.0 MB disk0s1
2: Apple_HFS Macintosh HD 20.0 GB disk0s2
3: Microsoft Basic Data FAT32 20.0 GB disk0s3
4: Microsoft Basic Data FAT32 10.0 GB disk0s4
5: Microsoft Basic Data 5.6 GB disk0s5
ben-kitchens-computer:~ benkitchen$ sudo diskutil eraseVolume MS-DOS FAT32 /dev/disk0s3
Password:
Could not unmount disk for making it bootable
The volume could not be made bootable during erase
This new volume may not be bootable in the future
Started erase on disk disk0s3 FAT32

Erasing

Mounting Disk

Finished erase on disk disk0s3 FAT32
 
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