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hey all, googled the **** out of this can't find anything on macintosh HD sharing 5 volumes and taking up that much space, here's a screenshot of my disk utility screen, don't think this is normal help!?!?
MacBook Pro 13", macOS 10.15
You prepped the disk to use APFS for a Catalina installation. The disk layout you see is normal for this purpose. You are mis-interpreting the disk layout.
There are 5 volumes created by Disk Utility. Only one volume is visible on the Desktop. That is Macintosh HD which holds macOS and is read-only. The other four volumes are invisible. The main volume that will hold all your files is named Macintosh HD - Data. That volume is allocated all of disk's space less the space needed for Preboot, Recovery, and VM. All 5 volumes are under the main APFS Container.
You prepped the disk to use APFS for a Catalina installation. The disk layout you see is normal for this purpose. You are mis-interpreting the disk layout.
There are 5 volumes created by Disk Utility. Only one volume is visible on the Desktop. That is Macintosh HD which holds macOS and is read-only. The other four volumes are invisible. The main volume that will hold all your files is named Macintosh HD - Data. That volume is allocated all of disk's space less the space needed for Preboot, Recovery, and VM. All 5 volumes are under the main APFS Container.
Hi,
In Terminal report the outcome of this...
diskutil list
bd1$ diskutil list
/dev/disk0 (internal, physical):
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: GUID_partition_scheme *500.1 GB disk0
1: EFI EFI 209.7 MB disk0s1
2: Apple_HFS Macintosh HD 499.2 GB disk0s2
3: Apple_Boot Recovery HD 650.0 MB disk0s3
thanks, this is what I got.
/dev/disk0 (internal, physical):
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: GUID_partition_scheme *251.0 GB disk0
1: EFI EFI 209.7 MB disk0s1
2: Apple_APFS Container disk1 250.8 GB disk0s2
/dev/disk1 (synthesized):
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: APFS Container Scheme - +250.8 GB disk1
Physical Store disk0s2
1: APFS Volume Macintosh HD - Data 236.9 GB disk1s1
2: APFS Volume Preboot 81.4 MB disk1s2
3: APFS Volume Recovery 528.5 MB disk1s3
4: APFS Volume VM 2.2 GB disk1s4
5: APFS Volume Macintosh HD 10.7 GB disk1s5
Catalina creates two volumes: your Mac HD which contains the OS/system and is read only. And, the Mc HD - Data volume which is read/write and your User folder, apps, etc.
I am not the best at this, but it looks like:
You appear to have two partitions: both are about 250 GB and APFS.
It looks like there is nothing on the first one listed except the needed EFI (the OS needs that).
The second one has:
your data volume (which is your user folder and apps, etc) takes up most of it. Right there, it looks like you need to do some deleting and/or moving space hogging files to an external drive because you are close to being full.
Mac OS needs the next two.
The 4th one is another volume to run Windows or some such in a VM environment - you must have created it.
The last one is your Mac HD which is read only and contains the OS/system.
Not sure why you have two partitions - one full up and the other one empty.
If you post back, please include vital info such as Mac model/year and OS version and particulars as to why you have two partitions, etc, etc. We are not good at guessing.
Yeah, well, we'll see - I just realized that the second one says "synthesized" and I have no idea what that is.
@ Shredimaster:
we need much more info: your Mac model/year, OS, your partitions, and if you created the VM volume.
Thanks, I'm going to see if I can get you some better help on this...
Thanks Babowa. :)
That's all perfectly normal. Apple's new APFS file system is just really complicated.
Thanks for all the help people. :)
239gb being taken up by other volumes help
