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Since I reinstalled my macbook I have no more space on the hard drive. When I look at Disk help program I see that there is 216 GB that is called other volumes. What is this and how can i get more free space? Can i delete this in some way?
MacBook Pro 15″, macOS 11.4
With a properly formatted APFS drive, you should see only a single Macintosh HD - Data volume. Although I can't tell from the image you provided, it appears that you have more than one of these, and one is grayed out. Is that correct? If so, this can happen if you chose a volume, and not a container, when you reinstalled macOS.
FYI ... macBig Sur will format the system drive for APFS. It then creates a single APFS container with two volumes. By default, those volumes are: Macintosh HD & Macintosh HD - Data.
If that grayed out volume is the additional HD - Data volume, then it can be deleted using the Disk Utility.
For reference, here is a screenshot from the Disk Utility on my Mac:
Be sure to change the view, in the Disk Utility, to "Show All Devices."
With a properly formatted APFS drive, you should see only a single Macintosh HD - Data volume. Although I can't tell from the image you provided, it appears that you have more than one of these, and one is grayed out. Is that correct? If so, this can happen if you chose a volume, and not a container, when you reinstalled macOS.
FYI ... macBig Sur will format the system drive for APFS. It then creates a single APFS container with two volumes. By default, those volumes are: Macintosh HD & Macintosh HD - Data.
If that grayed out volume is the additional HD - Data volume, then it can be deleted using the Disk Utility.
For reference, here is a screenshot from the Disk Utility on my Mac:
Be sure to change the view, in the Disk Utility, to "Show All Devices."
Thank you for your reply!
I looked at it and what i noticed that there is one Macintosh HD en two Macintosh HD data. Nothing is grayed out. So i am not sure if i can delete one of them. I made some screenshots of it. Maybe you can tell me if there is one that i can delete?
I appreciate your support.
Thanks! I deleted it and everything went allright. Now i have enough diskspace again.
The volume, located at /System/Volumes/Data, should be the one you keep. Regardless, be sure to fully backup/clone this drive BEFORE you delete any volumes.
Great! ... and you're very welcome!
Diskspace is full, Other volumes
