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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.
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.
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.
Nonetheless, what's the solution?
Delete "Other Volumes in Container" MacBook Pro running Mac OS Catalina 2019
