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  1. Cold.mira

    Resolved OS boot volume weirdness(?) in Disk Utility

    Hello, today while encountering some problems in trying to install the official release version of Big Sur (was on DevBuild/Public Beta before) i've noticed this... Macintosh HD in Container disk1 is greyed out and can't mount it, the text at center height in the main window should be...
    • Cold.mira
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    • bigsur boot catalina container macos snapshot volume
    • Replies: 5
    • Forum: macOS
  2. C

    Mojave - Partition / Container /Volume - Best Practices

    In an effort to reorganize my data, I want to make use of partition / volume / container. Are there any best practices in this regard? I have Mojave and use APFS encrypted. I am asking this because I want to keep OS separate from data and should have ability to reformat / reinstall OS without...
  3. zachlegomaniac

    Containers File Folder Size

    Hi there, I downloaded Daisy Disk because I can't figure out for the life of me what they heck is taking up all the space on my ssd. After the scan it shows the 'Containers' folder as taking up 50 GB. Could someone help me understand what this is and if there is anything I can do to reduce...
  4. J

    APFS Fusion Drive Containers Help Needed

    I had some issues with 10.13.6 beta that I didn't realize until I installed 10.14 where my file system was corrupted. After several days of troubleshooting I ultimately had to split and delete both drives from a USB Mojave boot disk and from that recovery created the fusion drive and merged...
  5. J

    APFS missing container bug

    Hello, I recently formatted all my external drives to APFS. The result was this: diskutil list /dev/disk3 (internal, physical): #: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER 0: GUID_partition_scheme *500.1 GB disk3 1...
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