Diskutil delete volume and container


List all mounted disk include hidden disk

diskutil list

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/dev/disk0 (internal, physical):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *1.0 TB     disk0
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk0s1
   2:                  Apple_HFS Backup                  465.6 GB   disk0s2
   3:                  Apple_HFS Data                    533.6 GB   disk0s3

/dev/disk1 (external, physical):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *240.1 GB   disk1
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk1s1
   2:                  Apple_HFS OSX                     239.2 GB   disk1s2
   3:                 Apple_Boot Recovery HD             650.0 MB   disk1s3

/dev/disk2 (external, physical):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *128.0 GB   disk2
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk2s1
   2:                 Apple_APFS Container disk3         127.8 GB   disk2s2

/dev/disk3 (synthesized):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      APFS Container Scheme -                      +127.8 GB   disk3
                                 Physical Store disk2s2
   1:                APFS Volume Preboot                 19.1 MB    disk3s2
   2:                APFS Volume Recovery                517.4 MB   disk3s3
   3:                APFS Volume VM                      4.3 GB     disk3s4

Delete the volume

diskutil apfs deleteVolume /dev/disk3s1

Delete the container

diskutil apfs deleteContainer /dev/disk3