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<blockquote data-quote="MacInWin" data-source="post: 1795265" data-attributes="member: 396914">I believe that is how APFS manages partitions now. The 98GB showing is the space you are presently USING in the container of all space in the drive, and is named &quot;Macintosh HD&quot; as usual for macOS. That number will change as you use more or less space. I just looked at my own system and on a 1Tb drive I see exactly the same, except that my Macintosh HD is showing with a size that matches what Get Info on the drive shows as &quot;Used.&quot; So, using your data, you seem to have a 250GB drive of which 98GB is used and the rest is free. (Ignoring the Reboot, Recovery and VM volumes, which match mine exactly because they are system &quot;volumes&quot; of the container.). From another website: That is from <a href="https://www.howtogeek.com/327328/apfs-explained-what-you-need-to-know-apples-new-file-system/" target="_blank">https://www.howtogeek.com/327328/apfs-explained-what-you-need-to-know-apples-new-file-system/</a> if you want to read more about APFS. If you create a new volume, it will share space. If you create a new partition, it will take away the partition from the shared space. Normally, you do NOT want to take space away from the sharing scheme. chscag's comment is not correct because he is thinking in the old HFS+ format way to doing business. Diskutil has been modified for APFS drives to show what you are seeing.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="MacInWin, post: 1795265, member: 396914"] I believe that is how APFS manages partitions now. The 98GB showing is the space you are presently USING in the container of all space in the drive, and is named "Macintosh HD" as usual for macOS. That number will change as you use more or less space. I just looked at my own system and on a 1Tb drive I see exactly the same, except that my Macintosh HD is showing with a size that matches what Get Info on the drive shows as "Used." So, using your data, you seem to have a 250GB drive of which 98GB is used and the rest is free. (Ignoring the Reboot, Recovery and VM volumes, which match mine exactly because they are system "volumes" of the container.). From another website: That is from [url]https://www.howtogeek.com/327328/apfs-explained-what-you-need-to-know-apples-new-file-system/[/url] if you want to read more about APFS. If you create a new [B]volume[/B], it will share space. If you create a new [B]partition[/B], it will take away the partition from the shared space. Normally, you do NOT want to take space away from the sharing scheme. chscag's comment is not correct because he is thinking in the old HFS+ format way to doing business. Diskutil has been modified for APFS drives to show what you are seeing. [/QUOTE]

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