APFS Snapshot com.apple.os.update-... 8.9 GB disk1s1s1
Can the above be deleted without any deleterious effects? This on a 2018 Mac Mini.
Mac mini, macOS 13.2
Can the above be deleted without any deleterious effects? This on a 2018 Mac Mini.
Mac mini, macOS 13.2
As the name of the snapshot suggests, this is a pending OS update that will be installed on the next reboot. Sometimes macOS may even be booted from that snapshot.
The only APFS snapshots you can remove are any backup snapshots or snapshots you create yourself, but you do risk causing a problem with the backups if a backup snapshot is removed before the snapshot has been successfully transferred to external media.
View APFS snapshots in Disk Utility on Mac - Apple Support
It is best to leave alone everything outside of the "/Users" folder as everything outside is considered a system area.
As the name of the snapshot suggests, this is a pending OS update that will be installed on the next reboot. Sometimes macOS may even be booted from that snapshot.
The only APFS snapshots you can remove are any backup snapshots or snapshots you create yourself, but you do risk causing a problem with the backups if a backup snapshot is removed before the snapshot has been successfully transferred to external media.
View APFS snapshots in Disk Utility on Mac - Apple Support
It is best to leave alone everything outside of the "/Users" folder as everything outside is considered a system area.
Assuming you are referring to the sealed snapshot of the System Volume, No. Your Mac won’t boot without it.
What benefit do you imagine you will get from deleting it?
Getting rid of two icons that boot into jammed Ubuntu 22.04 when pressing the option key to choose which OS to use, on this 250GB machine, namely Ventura or the said Linux distro. I was tempted to try diskutil eraseVolume JHFS empty /dev/disk1s1s1 --not /dev/disk1s1s
I was thinking that my issue with the dual boot might/may be because the machine was booting from an incorrect snapshot!
APFS Snapshot com.apple.os.update-... 8.9 GB disk1s1s1