Two Macintosh HD icons-Error 69716,Error 69845

[duhduhdamage]

I apologize if this has been posted for the umpteenth time. I'm very confused on how to approach this, even after reading previous topics on here and the apple forums.

Running Sonoma 14.0 on a 2020 iMac (3.8 GHz 8-Core intel i7)

Disk utility fails in recovery mode and on desktop. I have two Macintosh HD icons which appears abnormal. Macintosh HD and Macintosh HD-Data both show 67 GB available, and 434 GB used, although all the files appear on Macintosh HD and none on HD-data. When I boot up recovery mode, I have different container disks: imgur photos of recovery mode (sorry for quality).

First Aid fails on container disk1 on my desktop, and it fails on container disk3 in recovery mode (-69716). First Aid fails on Macintosh HD-Data on both desktop and recovery mode (69845).

I don't understand the discrepancies between disk utility on desktop and recovery mode. Any way to handle this without complete reinstall?

I appreciate any help.

 

[joevt]

Maybe a different perspective would be helpful.

diskutil list
diskutil apfs list
diskutil info -all

Save the output to a text file and post the result as an attachment.

 

[duhduhdamage]

Thanks, seems like a good workaround to 132 screenshots

Maybe a different perspective would be helpful.

diskutil list
diskutil apfs list
diskutil info -all

Save the output to a text file and post the result as an attachment.

diskutil apfs list
APFS Container (1 found)
|
+-- Container disk1 E91F7502-5EDF-4DA5-AB6B-0804402392B2
====================================================
APFS Container Reference: disk1
Size (Capacity Ceiling): 499963174912 B (500.0 GB)
Capacity In Use By Volumes: 438873235456 B (438.9 GB) (87.8% used)
Capacity Not Allocated: 61089939456 B (61.1 GB) (12.2% free)
|
+-< Physical Store disk0s2 7CA284D3-C49C-46B8-8825-271FAFA857AE
| -----------------------------------------------------------
| APFS Physical Store Disk: disk0s2
| Size: 499963174912 B (500.0 GB)
|
+-> Volume disk1s1 271FB656-7C44-4AF1-ACA1-912188BE59A9
| ---------------------------------------------------
| APFS Volume Disk (Role): disk1s1 (Data)
| Name: Macintosh HD - Data (Case-insensitive)
| Mount Point: /System/Volumes/Data
| Capacity Consumed: 425584603136 B (425.6 GB)
| Sealed: No
| FileVault: Yes (Unlocked)
|
+-> Volume disk1s2 873E67E3-A212-4300-8BE2-308EF2A8730F
| ---------------------------------------------------
| APFS Volume Disk (Role): disk1s2 (No specific role)
| Name: Macintosh HD - Data (Case-insensitive)
| Mount Point: /Volumes/Macintosh HD - Data
| Capacity Consumed: 712704 B (712.7 KB)
| Sealed: No
| FileVault: No (Encrypted at rest)
|
+-> Volume disk1s3 5E549103-6BD7-41B8-99D5-EB025D4F9C0B
| ---------------------------------------------------
| APFS Volume Disk (Role): disk1s3 (Preboot)
| Name: Preboot (Case-insensitive)
| Mount Point: /System/Volumes/Preboot
| Capacity Consumed: 2073923584 B (2.1 GB)
| Sealed: No
| FileVault: No
|
+-> Volume disk1s4 5972EC34-EB85-4494-BCAF-98051C01CC28
| ---------------------------------------------------
| APFS Volume Disk (Role): disk1s4 (Recovery)
| Name: Recovery (Case-insensitive)
| Mount Point: Not Mounted
| Capacity Consumed: 1218424832 B (1.2 GB)
| Sealed: No
| FileVault: No
|
+-> Volume disk1s5 A4AB969D-372D-43EC-B693-86E44026536C
| ---------------------------------------------------
| APFS Volume Disk (Role): disk1s5 (System)
| Name: Macintosh HD (Case-insensitive)
| Mount Point: Not Mounted
| Capacity Consumed: 9817550848 B (9.8 GB)
| Sealed: Yes
| FileVault: Yes (Unlocked)
| Encrypted: No
| |
| Snapshot: 793D0DBA-A076-485B-B584-B51BC9096CE7
| Snapshot Disk: disk1s5s1
| Snapshot Mount Point: /
| Snapshot Sealed: Yes
|
+-> Volume disk1s7 5BC005F0-120C-448C-8837-111F8AFAACDC
---------------------------------------------------
APFS Volume Disk (Role): disk1s7 (VM)
Name: VM (Case-insensitive)
Mount Point: /System/Volumes/VM
Capacity Consumed: 20480 B (20.5 KB)
Sealed: No
FileVault: No

 

[joevt]

You're missing the output from a couple of the commands.
Also, txt file is preferable to pdf.
This command will create a text file in your documents file so you don't need to worry about copy/paste:
{ ; diskutil list ; diskutil apfs list ; diskutil info -all ; } > ~/Documents/diskutilall.txt
Open it to verify the contents. Use the Finder to compress it to a zip file if the forums doesn't like .txt files.

Looks like you should try to remove disk1s2 because it's empty and it does not have the Data role.
It says it's mounted at /Volumes/Macintosh HD - Data.
Use this command to open it in the Finder:
open /Volumes/Macintosh HD - Data

But this isn't going to help with the apfs errors so a migration is probably the way to go. Since the disk is almost full, you'll need a new disk to do the work.

 

[duhduhdamage]

Really appreciate the help, Macintosh HD-Data appears on my desktop top along with Macintosh HD. Force ejected VM, Preboot, and Update, to eject the disk. Attached are the text files for diskutil before the force eject, and after. I have an external hard drive, but when you mention migrate is it because my disk is corrupted? Would I migrate everything, clean wipe the disk, and move it back?

 

[duhduhdamage]

Really appreciate the help, Macintosh HD-Data appears on my desktop top along with Macintosh HD. Force ejected VM, Preboot, and Update, to eject the disk. Attached are the text files for diskutil before the force eject, and after. I have an external hard drive, but when you mention migrate is it because my disk is corrupted? Would I migrate everything, clean wipe the disk, and move it back?

After restarting, the Macintosh HD-Data appears on desktop again

 

[joevt]

Macintosh HD-Data appears on my desktop top along with Macintosh HD. Force ejected VM, Preboot, and Update, to eject the disk. Attached are the text files for diskutil before the force eject, and after.

After restarting, the Macintosh HD-Data appears on desktop again

When I said remove, I meant select the disk1s2 in Disk Utility.app and click the [-] Volume button which is left of the First Aid button.

I have an external hard drive, but when you mention migrate is it because my disk is corrupted? Would I migrate everything, clean wipe the disk, and move it back?

Maybe your disk is corrupted.

I don't think you can replace the SSD of a 2020 iMac so you would have to migrate it back to the internal drive after ensuring that the external drive works correctly.

I'm not sure what the best way is. I suppose the safest way would be to make an exact copy of the internal drive on the external drive. Then redo the internal drive?

 

[duhduhdamage]

Ok thanks, I appreciate the help