How can I remove a no longer used time machine backup?

Jerry Levan <[email protected]> Tue, 6 Dec 2011 08:02:55 -0500

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Hi,

I used an attached disk for several weeks for a time machine backup destination.

After I added a NAS I no longer had any use for the older Time Machine backup.

The backup is heavily protected by ACLs and I don't seem to be able to find
a magic command line that will recursively strip the ACL protections so I
can delete the 'whole thing'.

Google seemed to think that there is a function 'fsaclctl' that can remove
ACLs from a device but it does not appear to exist in mac osx 10.7.2 client.

Nuking the entire partition via disk utility seems a bit heavy handed…

Any suggestions?

Jerry