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
Hi,
I solve the problem for my system.
This is the procedure:
I hope this solution will work for you.
Hi,
I solve the problem for my system.
This is the procedure:
I hope this solution will work for you.
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
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?
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.
I have the same issue, I get the message you are low on space and when I check the storage use there is 77GB of 121GB used by "other volumes in container". This s huge even by MAC's standard.
Nonetheless, what's the solution?
Delete "Other Volumes in Container" MacBook Pro running Mac OS Catalina 2019
