I am a long-term user of MacBooks / macOS, and I never experienced this many generated disks, not created by me. How concerning is that?
Here is the output of the
diskutil list
:
/dev/disk0 (internal, physical):
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: GUID_partition_scheme *500.3 GB disk0
1: Apple_APFS_ISC Container disk1 524.3 MB disk0s1
2: Apple_APFS Container disk3 494.4 GB disk0s2
3: Apple_APFS_Recovery Container disk2 5.4 GB disk0s3
/dev/disk3 (synthesized):
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: APFS Container Scheme - +494.4 GB disk3
Physical Store disk0s2
1: APFS Volume Macintosh HD 13.2 GB disk3s1
2: APFS Snapshot com.apple.os.update-... 13.2 GB disk3s1s1
3: APFS Volume Preboot 12.3 GB disk3s2
4: APFS Volume Recovery 1.9 GB disk3s3
5: APFS Volume Data 254.6 GB disk3s5
6: APFS Volume VM 20.5 KB disk3s6
And this is the snapshot from **Disk Utility**:

Asked by striatum
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Nov 14, 2024, 11:05 AM
Last activity: Nov 14, 2024, 11:58 AM
Last activity: Nov 14, 2024, 11:58 AM