Erase USB in Disk Utility says "Permission denied" I'm trying to format my USB so I can get all the space back onto it, but every time I try to erase it in Disk Utility, this comes up:


  POSIX reports: The operation couldn’t be completed. Permission denied
Try with diskutil:

diskutil eraseVolume HFS+ "new name" disk1


Replace new name with the name you wish the disk to have, and disk1 with the disk identifier (select disk → Info).