To wipe out a disk so "Disk Utility" will earase and start over use: sudo gpt destroy -r /dev/disk2 Time Machine Options Format Mac OS Extended (Journaled) Mac OS Extended (Case-sensitive, Journaled) USING THIS Ex Fat (For partitions greater than 32Gb) MS-DOS (FAT) Scheme GUID Partition Map USING THIS Master Boot Record (used with Ex FAT and MS-DOS (FAT)) Apple Partition Map (used with old PowerPC) https://support.apple.com/kb/PH22240?locale=en_US