Erase a Mac hard drive from the Terminal (when Disk Utility fails)
I wanted to do a clean install of Mac OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion but after trying to delete the existing partition scheme, I was left with no partitions and a Disk Utility that didn't want to create some. Terminal to the rescue.
$ diskutil eraseDisk JHFS+ Name /dev/disk0Written by Mikkel Malmberg
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after executing the above it says "could not find disk for "
over 1 year ago
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