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Delete "Other Volumes in Container" MacBook Pro running Mac OS Catalina 2019

Dear Sir/Madam


How should I delete the "Other Volumes in Container" on the hard drive. It Contains over 58 Gb of my Macintosh HD hard drive (The capacity of Hard is 256 Gb). Unfortunately 20% of my hard are allocated to other volume container and it is a huge amount of my hard.

I would be grateful if you tell me a solution for my problem.


Yours sincerely,

MacBook Pro 15”, macOS 10.15

Posted on Dec 4, 2019 3:21 AM

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Hi,

I solve the problem for my system.


This is the procedure:

  • open Disk Utility
  • go to view menu and check the "show All Devices"
  • You will see some options (Macintosh HD) on Container-disk1 and one of them is unmounted (Macintosh HD - Data). select that one and mount it.
  • finally restart your Mac


I hope this solution will work for you.

Posted on Dec 29, 2019 8:28 AM

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Dec 6, 2019 9:57 AM in response to mdirzpr

Reading https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/disk-utility/dsku19ed921c/mac is a useful start. APFS is new to most people and you need to gain a fuller understanding before seeking to manipulate it.


There is more further reading than you can shake a stick at. https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/disk-utility/dskua9e6a110/mac is an example


There are some instances of oddities during installation of Catalina, where several duplicated disks have been created. These instances do need help


In Terminal paste: diskutil list


The output should resemble this:

/dev/disk0 (internal, physical):


   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER


   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *500.3 GB   disk0

   1:                        EFI EFI                     314.6 MB   disk0s1

   2:                 Apple_APFS Container disk1         500.0 GB   disk0s2




/dev/disk1 (synthesized):


   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER

   0:      APFS Container Scheme -                      +500.0 GB   disk1


                                 Physical Store disk0s2


   1:                APFS Volume Macintosh HD - Data     283.8 GB   disk1s1

   2:                APFS Volume Preboot                 83.0 MB    disk1s2

   3:                APFS Volume Recovery                528.5 MB   disk1s3

   4:                APFS Volume VM                      6.4 GB     disk1s4

   5:                APFS Volume Macintosh HD            10.8 GB    disk1s5




If you run the command and paste your output here folk can take a more educated look

Dec 7, 2019 1:41 PM in response to Lurkums

Thanks 🙏 for your reply and answer

this is my output for diskutil list command in terminal:


/dev/disk0 (internal, physical):


   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER

   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *251.0 GB   disk0

   1:                        EFI EFI                     314.6 MB   disk0s1

   2:                 Apple_APFS Container disk1         250.7 GB   disk0s2

/dev/disk1 (synthesized):

   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER

   0:      APFS Container Scheme -                      +250.7 GB   disk1


                                 Physical Store disk0s2


   1:                APFS Volume Macintosh HD - Data     57.9 GB    disk1s1 (?)

   2:                APFS Volume Preboot                 81.6 MB    disk1s2

   3:                APFS Volume Recovery                528.5 MB   disk1s3

   4:                APFS Volume VM                      1.1 GB     disk1s4

   5:                APFS Volume Macintosh HD            10.7 GB    disk1s5

   6:                APFS Volume Macintosh HD - Data     37.5 GB    disk1s6


I would be grateful if you guide me more in this issue. Thanks again for your consideration.

Dec 7, 2019 2:04 PM in response to mdirzpr

Physical Store disk0s2 shows items 1 and 6. There should only be item 1. I know enough to see the problem, and to know that this has happened sometimes on upgrade. But I don't have the skill to solve it for you. I've been searching for a recent thread I participated in which has the solution, but I can't spot it.


I suspect it involves using Disk Utility in Recovery Mode and deleting the incorrect HD-Data volume. but be sure you have a full backup before playing there.


We need an expert, perhaps a Support Agent?

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Dec 29, 2019 8:28 AM in response to Nobby-65

Hi,

I solve the problem for my system.


This is the procedure:

  • open Disk Utility
  • go to view menu and check the "show All Devices"
  • You will see some options (Macintosh HD) on Container-disk1 and one of them is unmounted (Macintosh HD - Data). select that one and mount it.
  • finally restart your Mac


I hope this solution will work for you.

Delete "Other Volumes in Container" MacBook Pro running Mac OS Catalina 2019

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