I have an external disk in my M1 Mac mini. The volume folder of this disk was renamed automatically to another name (eg. EDISK to EDISK 1). No event happened at that moment that can give me a clue of this behavior, I've searched in console logs without luck.
Now I have two mount points in this folder and when I tried to delete the old one it gets created automatically in seconds.
Any advice?
Mac mini 2018 or later
xulsolar01 wrote:
I have an external disk in my M1 Mac mini. The volume folder of this disk was renamed automatically to another name (eg. EDISK to EDISK 1). No event happened at that moment that can give me a clue of this behavior, I've searched in console logs without luck.
Now I have two mount points in this folder and when I tried to delete the old one it gets created automatically in seconds.
Any advice?
The drive was renamed?
How is this an issue...
Let's see the output from the Terminal.app command-line w/ all external drives mounted...copy & paste:
diskutil list external
Connect and use other storage devices with Mac
Thanks for the reply. The issue comes because it was the OS which rename the disk automatically (I have seem this happened too to internal disk drives), several paths and applications were associted to the original path and then did't work until you change manually.
diskutils output
/dev/disk0 (internal):
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: GUID_partition_scheme 251.0 GB disk0
1: Apple_APFS_ISC 524.3 MB disk0s1
2: Apple_APFS Container disk3 245.1 GB disk0s2
3: Apple_APFS_Recovery 5.4 GB disk0s3
/dev/disk3 (synthesized):
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: APFS Container Scheme - +245.1 GB disk3
Physical Store disk0s2
1: APFS Volume Macintosh HD 15.4 GB disk3s1
/dev/disk6 (external, physical):
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: GUID_partition_scheme *1.0 TB disk6
1: EFI EFI 209.7 MB disk6s1
2: Apple_APFS Container disk7 1000.0 GB disk6s2
/dev/disk7 (synthesized):
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: APFS Container Scheme - +1000.0 GB disk7
Physical Store disk6s2
1: APFS Volume SamsungT7 153.0 GB disk7s1
Volumes directos Output (ls command)
Macintosh HD Samgung T7 SamsungT7
Samsung T7 is the old entry that is created over and over even if I deleted.
xulsolar01 wrote:
The volume folder of this disk was renamed automatically to another name (eg. EDISK to EDISK 1)
Thanks for the reply. The issue comes because it was the OS which rename the disk automatically (I have seem this happened too to internal disk drives), several paths and applications were associted to the original path and then did't work until you change manually.
/dev/disk6 (external, physical):
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: GUID_partition_scheme *1.0 TB disk6
1: EFI EFI 209.7 MB disk6s1
2: Apple_APFS Container disk7 1000.0 GB disk6s2
/dev/disk7 (synthesized):
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: APFS Container Scheme - +1000.0 GB disk7
Physical Store disk6s2
1: APFS Volume SamsungT7 153.0 GB disk7s1
Samsung T7 is the old entry that is created over and over even if I deleted.
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I am not seeing either your EDISK to EDISK 1 as mention in the OP...(?)
Your 1TB external drive "SamsungT7 " has 153GB of data stored on it.
Maybe you can restate the issue...
That is right. EDISK to EDISK 1 was only an example, the correct names are Samsung T7 to Samsung T7 1.
OS rename external disk folder automatically