Format APFS or HFS

[MacInWin]

OK, I understand but my Disk Utility view is nothing like yours. Perhaps, I haven't chosen the right option for viewing. I'll have to experiment a bit later to see what you're viewing from Disk Utility.

My iMac came from Apple with the drive (SSD) preformatted to APFS and with High Sierra already installed. I assume your MacBook Pro SSD was converted to APFS when you installed High Sierra? I wonder if that's the difference in what you're seeing and I'm not seeing?

I upgraded to HS and the SSD was converted at that time. My Disk Utility reports version 17.0.

EDIT: My View is Show All Devices. If I change to Show Only Volumes all I see is a list of the "drive" names of my drives (Macintosh HD, etc).

 

[chscag]

Jake: See my edit to the last post.

 

[MacInWin]

Got it. I think we crossed posts. The VM is that size because it holds "sleepimage" as I said in an earlier post. Early sleepimage files were the size of your memory, but I guess they now have some compression to get it down. I have 16GB memory, my sleepimage is just over 1GB.