I bought an external 3TB disk and wanted to attach it to an old Airport Extreme. It wouldn’t see the disk. Turns out the disk is formatted for windows.
Okay, Diskutil to the rescue!
Not, I kept getting:
Running operation 1 of 1: Erase “Untitled”…
Unmounting disk
MediaKit reports not enough space on device for requested operation.
Operation failed…
A quick consultation of the Internet Oracle turned up:
MediaKit reports not enough space on device for requested operation.
Okay, but I wanted case sensitive, so:
loghyr:~ loghyr$ diskutil list
/dev/disk0 (internal, physical):
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: GUID_partition_scheme *1.0 TB disk0
1: EFI EFI 209.7 MB disk0s1
2: Apple_APFS Container disk3 1000.0 GB disk0s2/dev/disk1 (internal, physical):
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: GUID_partition_scheme *1.0 TB disk1
1: EFI EFI 209.7 MB disk1s1
2: Apple_APFS Container disk2 1000.0 GB disk1s2/dev/disk2 (synthesized):
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: APFS Container Scheme – +1000.0 GB disk2
Physical Store disk1s2
1: APFS Volume EVO1 703.1 GB disk2s1/dev/disk3 (synthesized):
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: APFS Container Scheme – +1000.0 GB disk3
Physical Store disk0s2
1: APFS Volume EVO2 157.6 GB disk3s1
2: APFS Volume Preboot 19.6 MB disk3s2
3: APFS Volume Recovery 506.6 MB disk3s3
4: APFS Volume VM 3.2 GB disk3s4/dev/disk4 (external, physical):
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: GUID_partition_scheme *3.0 TB disk4
1: Apple_HFS 3.0 TB disk4s1loghyr:~ loghyr$ diskutil unmountDisk force disk4
Forced unmount of all volumes on disk4 was successfulloghyr:~ loghyr$ sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/disk4 bs=1024 count=1024
1024+0 records in
1024+0 records out
1048576 bytes transferred in 0.452265 secs (2318499 bytes/sec)
Here is where I differ from the link:
loghyr:~ loghyr$ diskutil partitionDisk disk4 GPT JHFSX MacBackAttack 0g
Started partitioning on disk4
Unmounting disk
Creating the partition map
Waiting for partitions to activate
Formatting disk4s2 as Mac OS Extended (Case-sensitive, Journaled) with name MacBackAttack
Initialized /dev/rdisk4s2 as a 3 TB case-sensitive HFS Plus volume with a 229376k journal
Mounting disk
Finished partitioning on disk4
/dev/disk4 (external, physical):
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: GUID_partition_scheme *3.0 TB disk4
1: EFI EFI 209.7 MB disk4s1
2: Apple_HFS MacBackAttack 3.0 TB disk4s2