Q: delete virtual drive
For reasons I'm not entire sure of, Mac OS 10.14.11 has started creating virtual drives. Using the Terminal, I found these virtual drives in /Volumes. All the virtual drives have names similar to my actual hard drives, which are then renamed. So, for example, I had a drive called Backup, which is now renamed Backup 1, and a virtual drive is called backup. Using the terminal, I deleted all files on the virtual drives and would like to now delete them. My Linux/Unix knowledge had never reached that point, so if someone could tell me the command, I'll carefully delete the virtual drives. Mac OS finder knows nothing about these virtual drives.
Posted on Mar 27, 2014 8:28 AM
It happens when a drive get disconnected or goes offline during file transfer.
In Finder's Menu, select Go menu>Go to Folder, and go to "/volumes". (no quotes)
Volumes is where an alias to your hard drive ("/" at boot) is placed at startup, and where all the "mount points" for auxiliary drives are created for you to access them. This folder is normally hidden from view.
Drives with an extra 1 on the end have a side-effect of mounting a drive with the same name as the system already think exists. Try trashing the duplicates with a 1 or 2 if there are no real files in them, and reboot.
If it does contain data...
Posted on Mar 27, 2014 9:26 AM