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extra mounted hard disks

why do I have 3 internally mounted disks on my desktop in addition to the main hard disk? C.

Posted on Feb 15, 2022 2:52 AM

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Posted on Feb 15, 2022 3:04 AM

Probably are APFS partitions owned by the system.


Just venturing a guess; since no information is given

about the device or systems within. Other aspects of

their complement are viewable by use of utilities.


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Feb 15, 2022 3:18 AM in response to K Shaffer

Hi, thanks for the reply


Using disk utility there is this info:


Internal

MacHD APFS volume disk2s5

Untitled APFS volume disk2s6

Untitled APFS volume disk1s1

Untitles - Data volume dis2s2


It may be that I created them accidentally when I reformatted the SSD main drive but

would like to know for sure if I can delete them




extra mounted hard disks

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