Erasing the content of a partition

My external hard drive is divided into three partitions. I would like to erase the contents of one of those partitions without affecting the contents of the other partitions and keeping the same number of partitions. Is this possible and if so how would I do this?

Just open Disk Utility in Applications -> Utilities, select the said partition, and select Erase.
It won't affect the other partitions.

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