Why is System Data consuming so much disk space?
Just finished installing Applications on my new M1 MacBook Pro and noticed a huge chunk of disk space is being used by "System Data." Can someone explain what this is and why it would be consuming so much data? I looked at older threads addressing this issue but haven't really found any good answers. I've included the diskutil list if that might be helpful. Thanks!
~ % diskutil list internal
/dev/disk0 (internal):
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: GUID_partition_scheme 1.0 TB disk0
1: Apple_APFS_ISC 524.3 MB disk0s1
2: Apple_APFS Container disk3 994.7 GB disk0s2
3: Apple_APFS_Recovery 5.4 GB disk0s3
/dev/disk3 (synthesized):
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: APFS Container Scheme - +994.7 GB disk3
Physical Store disk0s2
1: APFS Volume Macintosh HD 15.4 GB disk3s1
2: APFS Snapshot com.apple.os.update-... 15.4 GB disk3s1s1
3: APFS Volume Preboot 557.6 MB disk3s2
4: APFS Volume Recovery 827.3 MB disk3s3
5: APFS Volume Data 422.6 GB disk3s5
6: APFS Volume VM 20.5 KB disk3s6
MacBook Pro Apple Silicon