Can't see disk partition in finder?

Can't see disk partition in finder?

Mac mini, macOS 13.0

Posted on Feb 15, 2023 6:49 AM

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Posted on Feb 15, 2023 7:09 AM

To achieve this it would be better to use Disk Utilities


Or in Terminal diskutil list


Notation, in my output I see Volumes On the Single Drive Partition of this computer


Volume are not the same a Partitions as they can expand and shrink wherein Partitions can NOT


refer to below


p.phillips@Ps-Mac-Mini-M1 ~ % diskutil list


/dev/disk0 (internal, physical):


   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER


   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *251.0 GB   disk0


   1:             Apple_APFS_ISC Container disk1         524.3 MB   disk0s1


   2:                 Apple_APFS Container disk3         245.1 GB   disk0s2


   3:        Apple_APFS_Recovery Container disk2         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            8.9 GB     disk3s1


   2:              APFS Snapshot com.apple.os.update-... 8.9 GB     disk3s1s1


   3:                APFS Volume Preboot                 5.4 GB     disk3s2


   4:                APFS Volume Recovery                768.4 MB   disk3s3


   5:                APFS Volume Data                    21.2 GB    disk3s5


   6:                APFS Volume VM                      20.5 KB    disk3s6



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Feb 15, 2023 7:09 AM in response to CHB2001

To achieve this it would be better to use Disk Utilities


Or in Terminal diskutil list


Notation, in my output I see Volumes On the Single Drive Partition of this computer


Volume are not the same a Partitions as they can expand and shrink wherein Partitions can NOT


refer to below


p.phillips@Ps-Mac-Mini-M1 ~ % diskutil list


/dev/disk0 (internal, physical):


   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER


   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *251.0 GB   disk0


   1:             Apple_APFS_ISC Container disk1         524.3 MB   disk0s1


   2:                 Apple_APFS Container disk3         245.1 GB   disk0s2


   3:        Apple_APFS_Recovery Container disk2         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            8.9 GB     disk3s1


   2:              APFS Snapshot com.apple.os.update-... 8.9 GB     disk3s1s1


   3:                APFS Volume Preboot                 5.4 GB     disk3s2


   4:                APFS Volume Recovery                768.4 MB   disk3s3


   5:                APFS Volume Data                    21.2 GB    disk3s5


   6:                APFS Volume VM                      20.5 KB    disk3s6



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