I have a late 2015 iMac running Monterey 12.6.7. It now has four hard drive partitions that I did not create. How do I eliminate the extra partitions and also, how do I know which ones to eliminate?
Earlier Mac models
Best leave them alone, those are normal...
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: APFS Container Scheme - +1.0 TB disk4
Physical Stores disk0s2, disk1s2
1: APFS Volume Macintosh HD 11.3 GB disk4s1
2: APFS Volume Macintosh HD - Data 673.3 GB disk4s2
3: APFS Volume Preboot 84.4 MB disk4s3
4: APFS Volume Recovery 529.0 MB disk4s4
5: APFS Volume VM 2.1 GB disk4s5
And no worry, they all can use the frre space.
View yours with this command in Terminal...
diskutil list
Best leave them alone, those are normal...
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: APFS Container Scheme - +1.0 TB disk4
Physical Stores disk0s2, disk1s2
1: APFS Volume Macintosh HD 11.3 GB disk4s1
2: APFS Volume Macintosh HD - Data 673.3 GB disk4s2
3: APFS Volume Preboot 84.4 MB disk4s3
4: APFS Volume Recovery 529.0 MB disk4s4
5: APFS Volume VM 2.1 GB disk4s5
And no worry, they all can use the frre space.
View yours with this command in Terminal...
diskutil list
BDAqua wrote:
Best leave them alone, those are normal...
+1 👍
To sherifromcovington -
That is the normal layout for modern macOS drives. Don't touch them, if you do you will corrupt your system.
Just for good measure regarding the Drive Structure on both Apple Silicon computer and Intel computers
As others have mentioned, leave things alone for reason presented by @MartinR and @BDAqua
https://eclecticlight.co/2021/12/16/boot-disk-layout-in-macos-monterey/
How to delete multiple harddrive partitions
