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

On Dec 6, 2011, at 10:39 AM, Christopher Wolf wrote:

> Use the Finder to delete the Backups.backupsb directory. 
> 
Ok, that works but it took a looong time…

I wonder why it is so protected that command line deletion
is extremely difficult.

Thanks

Jerry

> 
> On Dec 6, 2011, at 8:02 AM, Jerry Levan <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> 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
>> 
>> 
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