/Volumes folder contains 6 "Preboot" volumes
I just noticed that there are many Preboot volumes (all contain a folder with the same GUID name) in the /Volumes folder, but distil shows only one actual Preboot volume. Does this indicate a problem? What should be done to fix it?
$ ls -al /Volumes
total 80
drwxr-xr-x@ 12 root wheel 384 12 Nov 14:37 .
drwxr-xr-x 39 root wheel 1248 2 Nov 01:10 ..
-rw-r--r--@ 1 scott admin 6148 25 Sep 18:59 .DS_Store
drwxrwxrwx 1 scott staff 32768 1 Jan 1980 MERCURY
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 1 9 Nov 15:07 Macintosh HD -> /
drwxr-xr-x+ 3 root wheel 96 4 Sep 10:47 Preboot
drwxr-xr-x+ 3 root wheel 96 15 Sep 20:05 Preboot 1
drwxr-xr-x+ 3 root wheel 96 25 Sep 18:50 Preboot 2
drwxr-xr-x+ 3 root wheel 96 19 Oct 13:53 Preboot 3
drwxr-xr-x+ 3 root wheel 96 20 Oct 09:29 Preboot 4
drwxr-xr-x+ 3 root wheel 96 2 Nov 01:12 Preboot 5
drwxr-xr-x+ 3 root wheel 96 22 Oct 20:02 com.apple.TimeMachine.localsnapshots
$ diskutil list
/dev/disk0 (internal, physical):
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: GUID_partition_scheme *500.3 GB disk0
1: EFI EFI 209.7 MB disk0s1
2: Apple_APFS Container disk1 500.1 GB disk0s2
/dev/disk1 (synthesized):
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: APFS Container Scheme - +500.1 GB disk1
Physical Store disk0s2
1: APFS Volume Macintosh HD 469.4 GB disk1s1
2: APFS Volume Preboot 20.5 MB disk1s2
3: APFS Volume Recovery 520.8 MB disk1s3
4: APFS Volume VM 3.2 GB disk1s4
/dev/disk2 (external, physical):
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: FDisk_partition_scheme *15.6 GB disk2
1: Windows_NTFS MERCURY 15.6 GB disk2s1
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