> Is there some other way to properly erase the disk so I can start from
> scratch and lay down a new filesystem?

Since neither gparted, not parted, nor fdisk seemed to be able to do
the job, I used dd:

dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdc bs=8192

After that I used parted to create a new disk label, and then all was well.
I was able to lay down new partitions without a problem.


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