Wiping Disk Partitions and Filesystems using Linux

Sometimes I need to setup a drive for things such as xbox, windows, or other things, and they have issues if the drive already has a file system in place. Here I list some of the ways I have found to wipe out a file system and partitions of a drive.

First you need to identify the correct disk!

fdisk -l

Any of the below methods should work, I may add more methods to this page if any of these methods ever fail to work for me.

Using wipefs:

wipefs -a /dev/sdz

Using DD:

dd if=/dev/zero bs=512 count=1 of=/dev/sdz status=progress

Using Parted:

parted /dev/sdz mklabel gpt