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Dear Sir/Madam
I have a problem where 2 unmounted volumes take 100 gb of space in my MAC hard drive.And also for some reason I have two Macintosh HD data and one is unmounted.
My question:
Can I get rid of the "2 not mounted" to get my 100 gb back?
please help as I need the 100gb really badly
yours sincerely
You can only remove one of the "Macintosh HD - Data" volumes. Just make sure you have all the data located on the unmounted " - Data" volume before removing that volume since it is impossible to recover accidentally deleted data from an SSD.
Starting with macOS 10.15 Catalina and continuing with macOS 11.1 Big Sur macOS now uses multiple APFS volumes so all the other APFS volumes must stay:
Deleting an unused volume should not have an adverse effect on you Mac.
You should be able to view the contents of this volume by selecting it from the Desktop or the left pane of a Finder window if you have the Finder configured to show mounted volumes.
Use Disk Utility to delete the unused APFS volume after making sure you have a backup of the data stored on it.
https://support.apple.com/guide/disk-utility/add-erase-or-delete-apfs-volumes-dskua9e6a110/mac
I also found this in terminal,
| APFS Volume Disk (Role): disk1s2 (Data)
| Name: Macintosh HD - Data (Case-insensitive)
| Mount Point: Not Mounted
| Capacity Consumed: 107644137472 B (107.6 GB)
| FileVault: Yes (Locked)
|
Normally an identically named volume will be automatically renamed by macOS with an " 1" appended to it, but due to how and where macOS creates the mount points this may not happen for the "Macintosh HD - Data" volume. Just use "Get Info" on the volume you just mounted to confirm its size and then give it a different name so you don't confuse the two volumes.
but now I have two Macintosh hd data volumes
I have finder configured to show mounted volumes, but I can't see what's inside the unmounted volume.I also cannot make a backup.
Thank you
but will I get my 107 gb back?
If you delete the 107GB "Macintosh HD - Data" volume, then it should give you back 107GB.
If I delete the 107gb Macintosh hd data will I have a any issues with my Mac after that?
I’m not sure what there is in the 107gb of the Macintosh hd data volume, I don’t know how to locate it.How do I remove the Macintosh hd data volume?
thank you
best regards
Even if it is unmounted,can my Mac use the data from it?
Try using Disk Utility to manually mount the volume. Sometimes a Filevaulted volume won't prompt you for your password to unlock the encrypted volume.
2 not mounted volumes take 100 gb
