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I have 2 copies of Macintosh HD when I open Disk Utility

When I open Disk Utility, I seem to have two copies of Macintosh HD.


Under Container Disk 1, I have Macintosh HD (used: 11.19Gb, other volumes 200.31Gb) and another, Macintosh HD Data2 (used 195.2Gb, other volumes 16.3Gb). When I select 'Show in Finder' both point to Macintosh HD.


I think the second one was created when I did a complete reinstall of the OS. When I open Time Machine, it seems to show used data at 608Gb.


Malware scans now take 11 hours (they used to just take 4 hours). Is it safe for me to delete one of these volumes. If so, which one, and how?


Thanks.

iMac 21.5", 10.15

Posted on May 1, 2020 4:50 AM

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Posted on May 1, 2020 6:20 AM



glyderfach wrote:

When I open Disk Utility, I seem to have two copies of Macintosh HD.

Under Container Disk 1, I have Macintosh HD (used: 11.19Gb, other volumes 200.31Gb) and another, Macintosh HD Data2 (used 195.2Gb, other volumes 16.3Gb). When I select 'Show in Finder' both point to Macintosh HD.

I think the second one was created when I did a complete reinstall of the OS.

Malware scans now take 11 hours



This is the new normal— you can read more on the two volume macOS—


About the read-only system volume in macOS Catalina - Apple ...


and yes Finder should see the two volumes as only one Macintosh HD



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If what you are saying is you ended up with two "Macintosh HD - Data" volumes, then this is an indication of an incomplete erase/reformat of the Parent drive before you did the re-install of the Catalina macOS.


Your way forward is Interent Recovery>Disk Utility>View>Show All Devices> it is here you reformat on the parent Drive level, not the Container level or the child Volume level.


How to reinstall macOS from macOS Internet Recovery - https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204904



From Terminal you can get a good look, copy and paste:

diskutil list internal 



/dev/disk0 (internal, physical):

#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER

0: GUID_partition_scheme *1.0 TB disk0

1: EFI EFI 314.6 MB disk0s1

2: Apple_APFS Container disk1 1.0 TB disk0s2


/dev/disk1 (synthesized):

#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER

0: APFS Container Scheme - +1.0 TB disk1

Physical Store disk0s2

1: APFS Volume Macintosh HD 11.1 GB disk1s1

2: APFS Volume Macintosh HD - Data 259.1 GB disk1s2

3: APFS Volume Preboot 80.8 MB disk1s3

4: APFS Volume Recovery 528.1 MB disk1s4

5: APFS Volume VM 8.6 GB disk1s5


MacBook-Pro ~ %


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May 1, 2020 6:20 AM in response to glyderfach



glyderfach wrote:

When I open Disk Utility, I seem to have two copies of Macintosh HD.

Under Container Disk 1, I have Macintosh HD (used: 11.19Gb, other volumes 200.31Gb) and another, Macintosh HD Data2 (used 195.2Gb, other volumes 16.3Gb). When I select 'Show in Finder' both point to Macintosh HD.

I think the second one was created when I did a complete reinstall of the OS.

Malware scans now take 11 hours



This is the new normal— you can read more on the two volume macOS—


About the read-only system volume in macOS Catalina - Apple ...


and yes Finder should see the two volumes as only one Macintosh HD



-----------------------------------------


If what you are saying is you ended up with two "Macintosh HD - Data" volumes, then this is an indication of an incomplete erase/reformat of the Parent drive before you did the re-install of the Catalina macOS.


Your way forward is Interent Recovery>Disk Utility>View>Show All Devices> it is here you reformat on the parent Drive level, not the Container level or the child Volume level.


How to reinstall macOS from macOS Internet Recovery - https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204904



From Terminal you can get a good look, copy and paste:

diskutil list internal 



/dev/disk0 (internal, physical):

#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER

0: GUID_partition_scheme *1.0 TB disk0

1: EFI EFI 314.6 MB disk0s1

2: Apple_APFS Container disk1 1.0 TB disk0s2


/dev/disk1 (synthesized):

#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER

0: APFS Container Scheme - +1.0 TB disk1

Physical Store disk0s2

1: APFS Volume Macintosh HD 11.1 GB disk1s1

2: APFS Volume Macintosh HD - Data 259.1 GB disk1s2

3: APFS Volume Preboot 80.8 MB disk1s3

4: APFS Volume Recovery 528.1 MB disk1s4

5: APFS Volume VM 8.6 GB disk1s5


MacBook-Pro ~ %


I have 2 copies of Macintosh HD when I open Disk Utility

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