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My 2TB drive is full and I've got about 800g of files on it?

So I tried to update my 2015 15" MBP from 11.6.1 to 11.6.2 tonight and I discovered that I have no free space.


So I look in Disk Utility and I see that "2 Not Mounted" is using up half of my drive



Then I look at diskutil and see that /System/Volumes/Data is where it all is (maybe)

➜  ~ diskutil apfs list
APFS Containers (4 found)
|
+-- Container disk1 BFD1ED1D-0B21-4F76-BD6A-6AD86A596480
|   ====================================================
|   APFS Container Reference:     disk1
|   Size (Capacity Ceiling):      1920039436288 B (1.9 TB)
|   Capacity In Use By Volumes:   1905017901056 B (1.9 TB) (99.2% used)
|   Capacity Not Allocated:       15021535232 B (15.0 GB) (0.8% free)
|   |
|   +-< Physical Store disk0s2 CB9B9CB0-C2F5-4C02-BF61-6E2AD0498F7A
|   |   -----------------------------------------------------------
|   |   APFS Physical Store Disk:   disk0s2
|   |   Size:                       1920039436288 B (1.9 TB)
|   |
|   +-> Volume disk1s1 ADB16F2C-3A68-3524-ADB6-EE7B6DAFA722
|   |   ---------------------------------------------------
|   |   APFS Volume Disk (Role):   disk1s1 (Data)
|   |   Name:                      OWC Aura Pro X2 - Data (Case-insensitive)
|   |   Mount Point:               Not Mounted
|   |   Capacity Consumed:         983448141824 B (983.4 GB)
|   |   Sealed:                    No
|   |   FileVault:                 No
|   |
|   +-> Volume disk1s2 C60C3B07-7303-4440-BEEC-7C89F5D9D8CE
|   |   ---------------------------------------------------
|   |   APFS Volume Disk (Role):   disk1s2 (Preboot)
|   |   Name:                      Preboot (Case-insensitive)
|   |   Mount Point:               /System/Volumes/Preboot
|   |   Capacity Consumed:         1347420160 B (1.3 GB)
|   |   Sealed:                    No
|   |   FileVault:                 No
|   |
|   +-> Volume disk1s3 229F6437-E74B-4FC2-BA75-7EA34776628A
|   |   ---------------------------------------------------
|   |   APFS Volume Disk (Role):   disk1s3 (Recovery)
|   |   Name:                      Recovery (Case-insensitive)
|   |   Mount Point:               Not Mounted
|   |   Capacity Consumed:         1718525952 B (1.7 GB)
|   |   Sealed:                    No
|   |   FileVault:                 No
|   |
|   +-> Volume disk1s4 133D559B-7EF9-4A79-9708-C7AE11014527
|   |   ---------------------------------------------------
|   |   APFS Volume Disk (Role):   disk1s4 (VM)
|   |   Name:                      VM (Case-insensitive)
|   |   Mount Point:               /System/Volumes/VM
|   |   Capacity Consumed:         3233918976 B (3.2 GB)
|   |   Sealed:                    No
|   |   FileVault:                 No
|   |
|   +-> Volume disk1s5 46B25930-D7D9-4AB1-B59F-EE757E3EA332
|   |   ---------------------------------------------------
|   |   APFS Volume Disk (Role):   disk1s5 (Data)
|   |   Name:                      Macintosh HD - Data (Case-insensitive)
|   |   Mount Point:               /System/Volumes/Data
|   |   Capacity Consumed:         899634757632 B (899.6 GB)
|   |   Sealed:                    No
|   |   FileVault:                 No
|   |
|   +-> Volume disk1s7 E55BB38D-A839-48B4-B070-8AC70F38FE0C
|       ---------------------------------------------------
|       APFS Volume Disk (Role):   disk1s7 (System)
|       Name:                      Macintosh HD (Case-insensitive)
|       Mount Point:               /System/Volumes/Update/mnt1
|       Capacity Consumed:         15333482496 B (15.3 GB)
|       Sealed:                    Broken
|       FileVault:                 No
|       |
|       Snapshot:                  BF7652E2-B5BA-4F9F-9498-D7981827FD94
|       Snapshot Disk:             disk1s7s1
|       Snapshot Mount Point:      /
|       Snapshot Sealed:           Yes
|

I realize that /System/Volumes/Data/Users is where most of it is and I find my home directory there and it exactly matches the size of my real home directory.

sudo du -sh /Users/jrh /System/Volumes/Data/Users/jrh
728G	/Users/jrh
728G	/System/Volumes/Data/Users/jrh

At this point, it looks to me like I have 2 complete copies of my home directory plus a bunch of local time machine backups filling up my disk and I have no idea how to straighten this out.


Can anyone tell me how to recover this space. (I completely blew this system away and reloaded it 2 months ago and I don't want to do that again.)


Thanks


MacBook Pro 15″, macOS 11.6

Posted on Dec 14, 2021 6:06 PM

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Dec 14, 2021 7:18 PM in response to tangentially

You have two Data volumes, Macintosh HD - Data and OWC Aura X2 - Data. One is likely orphaned from a previous install. I imagine that is the OWC Aura X2 as it doesn't have a System Volume (but I could be wrong).

In the disk list in Disk Utility, the current Data volume will be in the same volume group as the startup volume and will have a home icon when selected.

The orphan will show a mount point of /Volumes.

If you know you have all of the files from that orphan, select it in Disk Utility and click the Remove Volume button (–).


That report also says you have four containers (partitions). You only show the one.

My 2TB drive is full and I've got about 800g of files on it?

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