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As you see in the picture, my storage has been taken by other volumes in the container. This had happened when I formatted my macbook and reinstalled big sur. Is there a way to free up my storage without causing any harm to the drive? I really need some storage right now!
MacBook Air 13″, macOS 11.3
Open the Terminal Application and type the command " diskutil list ". This should present a readout of the internal drive including all the Volumes on the Drive. Copy and Paste the results back and we can have a look.
See used and available storage space on your Mac - specifically related to " Other " usage
Open the Terminal Application and type the command " diskutil list ". This should present a readout of the internal drive including all the Volumes on the Drive. Copy and Paste the results back and we can have a look.
See used and available storage space on your Mac - specifically related to " Other " usage
When you formatted your Mac, you may not have removed the Data drive.
Look in Disk Utility.
You should have Macintosh HD (grayed out),
A snapshot of the OS volume,
and one Macintosh HD - Data volume.
If it shows any more than that, check each data volume. The current one will show a home badge and will have a mount point of /System/Volumes/Data.
An old one will be mounted to /Volumes. It can be removed.
If it doesn’t have an additional Data volume, then the Other Volumes in Container is your data.
Yeah you didn't erase your disk properly.
Boot to your Recovery HD
Open Disk Utility.
Click on View in the menubar and select Show All Devices.
Highlight the Disk not any of the indented Volumes
(the Disk will be called Apple SSD.... or something similar)
Click on Erase.
Give the Disk a name.
Format: APFS.
Scheme: GUID Partition Map
Click Erase.
When Done quit Disk Utility.
Now you are ready to reinstall the OS.
You may be able to just Remove one of the Macintosh HD Volumes, but I don't know which is which.
Disk1s7 is likely the current OS Volume as it is the correct size. disk1s1 is likely the old startup volume.
You may be better off following Eau Rouge's directions to erase it completely and start over.
This is what it says
Tend to agree with both previously posting on Wipe the drive and start over.
"Other volumes in container" Takes up my storage
