Normal Disk Utility View

[Airsculpture]

Is this a normal view now on Big Sur with the way they handle things on the OS portion of the drive i.e. used 15GB and Other/Grey 200GB ?

 

[0128672]

Is this a normal view now on Big Sur with the way they handle things on the OS portion of the drive i.e. used 15GB and Other/Grey 200GB ?

Yes, that's how it appears in Big Sur regardless of dark or light mode.

 

[Airsculpture]

So that "Update" entry stays - some sort of snapshot or something ?

 

[Airsculpture]

Under Macintosh SSD it says com.apple.os.update etc

I assume that is the current OS 11.1

 

[chrfr]

Under Macintosh SSD it says com.apple.os.update etc

I assume that is the current OS 11.1

Yes, this is normal. The OS runs in what is essentially a snapshot nowadays, and that's how it appears in Disk Utility.

 

[colourfastt]

Since it appears to be "normal", perhaps someone will opine on my rather odd situation.

 

[Quackers]

Since it appears to be "normal", perhaps someone will opine on my rather odd situation.
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It seems you may have re-installed Big Sur at some time but without deleting the Big Sur Data volume from the first installation. That's why you've got 2 of them.
You have 2 choices, as I did when this happened with Catalina on mine.
You can delete the Data volume that is not linked to your system volume and see if that has any impact on your running system.
If it doesn't then you're set.
If it does have an impact (things missing or not working) you'll need to delete all the Big Sur volumes and re-install it again. That should leave you with one Big Sur HD volume and one Big Sur - Data volume and then a com.update snapshot volume.
This is what I had to do on mine.
I don't know if anyone might have a better idea.