format/Erase Equivalence Disk Utility and Terminal Command diskutil
What is the diskutil
equivalence from Disk Utility of
Format/Erase with Format
MS-DOS(FAT)
andScheme GUID Partition Map
.Format/Erase with Format
MS-DOS(FAT)
andScheme Master Boot Record
.
In other words how do format/erase a disk with Console/Terminal?
The equivalent commands are given below.
diskutil eraseDisk MS-DOS GPT diskX
diskutil eraseDisk MS-DOS MBR diskX
Where diskX
is the identifier for the drive. The value of X
needs to be replaced with a integer of 0
or higher. The command diskutil list
will list all the current disk identifiers. The command diskutil listfilesystems
will list the available formats.