Hi,
I noticed that I have an extra Volume and totaling all volumes = more than my SSD total size, does this mean there is hidden space?
I have a 512gb SSD and the 3 Drives / Volumes (Macintosh HD, BOOTCAMP, MobileBackups) = 870.3gb?? WHAT!?
MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Early 2013), OS X Mavericks (10.9.4), i7 Quad Core, 16GB RAM, 512GB SSD
MobileBackup is when you backup your iOS devices to iTunes.
I don't know what kind of app you're using but its not a volume.
Create and delete iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch backups in iTunes - Apple Support
The link above will show you how to delete them and where they are stored.
I don't know anything about your setup but it only appears that you have two usable volumes:
Macintosh HD - 370.4 GB
BOOTCAMP - 127.5 GB
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Total - ~500 GB APPLE SSD
Note that whatever "MobileBackups" is appears to be the same volume as Macintosh HD (note that the total space is listed as being exactly the same).
The MobileBackups is a volume and is usually used for a Time Machine local backup, I was just wondering why it's a separate volume with the same amount of space as my Macintosh HD...
Yeah bootcamp is my Windows partition.
That's Time Machine local snapshots. The hidden volume itself doesn't take up any space.
When Time Machine backs up a portable Mac, some of the free space will be used to make local snapshots, which are backup copies of recently deleted files. The space occupied by local snapshots is reported as available by the Finder, and should be considered as such. In the Storage display of System Information, local snapshots are shown as Backups. The snapshots are automatically deleted when they expire or when free space falls below a certain level. You ordinarily don't need to, and should not, delete local snapshots yourself.
MobileBackups Volume?
