Identify the ESP it's the partition with a type code of EF00, as shown in the previous step. Verify, based on the disk's size and the available partitions, that you're working on the right disk. As the APFS container would be ejected, you can delete it. To delete a partition, you would: Launch gdisk on your disk. Since my LUKS partition was created recently (within 2 months) on Ubuntu 22. To start with, you need to go to System Preferences and launch the Disk Utility tool.

My research indicates that 'LUKS2' (as opposed to LUKS version 1) wisely clones the LUKS header to the end of the device (as a backup). I did some basic checks and can't find the LUKS header at the beginning of the partition (presumably because either the delete or the reformat wrote over the LUKS header) On the target disk, right-click a partition and select Delete Volume. Right-click the Windows icon and select Disk Management. Like the title says I mixed up which disk was which and ended up using MacOS's 'Diskutil' to first delete the partition then reformat it as 'exFAT' Here is how to delete all partitions on your drive: Step 1. macOS Partitions Explained Head to Disk Utility by locating it in Finder > Applications > Utilities (or save yourself some time and search Spotlight via the.

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