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Two different Macintosh drives are there

I recently upgraded to Catalina, and after upgrading to it, my storage is full now, and theres a new partition 'Macintosh HD' which is using 10gb of storage.

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Posted on Oct 11, 2019 2:07 PM

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Brallen01

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Posted on Oct 11, 2019 3:21 PM

This is normal for Catalina. macOS Catalina is the first Macintosh OS to create two separate volumes for the operating system files and your data files.

I really wouldn't try and mess around with or delete one of the volumes.

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Brallen01

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Oct 11, 2019 3:21 PM in response to Nishu.nalwaya

This is normal for Catalina. macOS Catalina is the first Macintosh OS to create two separate volumes for the operating system files and your data files.

I really wouldn't try and mess around with or delete one of the volumes.

Oct 11, 2019 2:08 PM in response to Nishu.nalwaya

now what should i do? or how can i remove it if i can?

etresoft

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Oct 11, 2019 2:15 PM in response to Nishu.nalwaya

That is normal for Catalina. One drive is read-only and reserved for the operating system. The other is for 3rd party software and your own data. In theory, software shouldn’t notice the difference.

Oct 11, 2019 2:18 PM in response to etresoft

but mojave didn't had partitions like this

Barney-15E

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Oct 11, 2019 3:49 PM in response to Nishu.nalwaya

but mojave didn't had partitions like this

What would that have to do with Catalina?

Oct 13, 2019 10:33 AM in response to Brallen01

okay, got it. Thank you so much

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