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Disk appears 2 times under disk utility (macOS Catalina)

Hello,


I have just installed mac os catalina on my macbook pro 2013.

Previous os was High Sierra on a OSX Journaled formatted SSD.

So I formatted the SSD to APFS, but now I see my SSD 2 times under disk utility.

Once it is called "abcd".

And a second entry named "abcd - data".

And, I don't know if this is normal, they both show info saying "shared by 5 volumes" (on the right side under the capacity of this disk.


Is this normal?

Or is this some inheritance of old APFS volumes?


Please advise what to do :)


Already thanks in advance.

M.

MacBook Pro Retina

Posted on Oct 14, 2019 9:54 AM

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Nov 27, 2019 7:19 PM in response to MrMGeeIsTheName

I have this issue too, and I have found that after installing Catalina on my 2015 MacBook Pro as well, after I had used the Migration assistant to transfer data from my other Mac, the duplicate drive had appeared in my Finder sidebar. According to Disk Utility, the mount point for "abcd" and "abcd - Data" is '/' and '/System/Volumes/Data' respectively.


Below, I attached images from the disk utility to assist with any needed information.


Thanks in advance for any help!


Nov 27, 2019 7:39 PM in response to MrMGeeIsTheName

It is new to Catalina. The System files are stored on abcd. It is mounted Read-only so nothing can modify the system while it is running.

The - Data Volume contains other parts of the system and non-system apps and your data.


The Finder should make that distinction disappear and you only see one Volume. If you do see both in Finder, I would ignore the system volume.


Disk appears 2 times under disk utility (macOS Catalina)

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