disk not mounted hd volume (free space and volumes)

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disk not mounted hd volume (free space and volumes)

This has got me confused. I've been having trouble backing up to Time Machine, and today it was saying that the hard drive was full (I think it meant Macintosh HD, since the MyBook backup drive is 8tb and empty). I've got volumes for OS/general-purpose, one for my Lightroom Catalog database files (LR Catalog), and another for photos when I'm on location (Travel Photos). What is that huge grey "1 Not Mounted" space? Is that space that is supposed to get automatically shuffled as needed when another volume fills up, or do I have unallocated space, and I need to either make another volume out of it, or increase the size of the other volumes?

MacBook Pro (2020 and later)

Posted on Dec 8, 2021 11:22 AM

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lllaass

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Dec 8, 2021 1:41 PM in response to stetson628

What is strange is that LR Catalog says 90GB used which is normal but also "500GB reserved" which is strange. Similar for Travel Photos. Post an image when you select either of those two items on the left pane.

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Dec 8, 2021 2:14 PM in response to lllaass

When I set it up, I specified to reserve space for those two partitions. I'm an event photographer, so I'd like to make sure that if the Travel Photos partition is empty, that I have a solid terabyte available, so I don't get caught without enough space during a big event.

Now that you've made me go through this though, I realize I'd forgotten that I'd set a full TB for the Photos volume! (My previous MBP I just did 500gb.) So that, plus the 500gb reserved for LR Catalog, leaves only 500gb for my main OS volume. I could probably stand to reduce the LR Catalog volume to give more space...

Thanks for helping out with this, I know what's going on now!

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lllaass

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Dec 8, 2021 12:52 PM in response to stetson628

Macintosh HD is the default name Apple uses for the startup disk when you do an install/upgrade.

Please provide an image of the left hand side of disk utility which each entry expanded, that is every entry has a ⌵ in from of it.

Identify you startup dis too

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stetson628 Author

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Dec 8, 2021 1:09 PM in response to lllaass

I believe Macintosh HD is the Startup. `LR Catalog` and `Travel Photos` are volumes on the same internal drive. All the ones labeled HGST are in 2 external hard drive bays.

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disk not mounted hd volume (free space and volumes)

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