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hard drive errors in Disk utility.? APFS issues?
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<blockquote data-quote="MacInWin" data-source="post: 1838490" data-attributes="member: 396914"><p>Under AFPS what was known as partitions have been changed to Containers and Volumes. From your image, you have two Containers or two partitions at the hardware level; one named eDrive and the other Container disk1. In Container disk1 is one Volume, named iMac HD. The idea about Volumes is that all volumes in a Container share the space in the Container, so if you want a second drive, you can create a new volume without having to partition the drive. The two volumes then share whatever space is available in the Container automatically, again avoiding the necessity of invoking partitioning to change volume sizes. Overall, that function, combined with the efficiencies of APFS on SSDs, makes APFS a huge step forward. It doesn't work as efficiently on spinner drives, but it still has the advantages of not having to work with partitioning to make drive changes.</p><p></p><p>Here is what it looks like on my SSD: [ATTACH=full]30837[/ATTACH]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MacInWin, post: 1838490, member: 396914"] Under AFPS what was known as partitions have been changed to Containers and Volumes. From your image, you have two Containers or two partitions at the hardware level; one named eDrive and the other Container disk1. In Container disk1 is one Volume, named iMac HD. The idea about Volumes is that all volumes in a Container share the space in the Container, so if you want a second drive, you can create a new volume without having to partition the drive. The two volumes then share whatever space is available in the Container automatically, again avoiding the necessity of invoking partitioning to change volume sizes. Overall, that function, combined with the efficiencies of APFS on SSDs, makes APFS a huge step forward. It doesn't work as efficiently on spinner drives, but it still has the advantages of not having to work with partitioning to make drive changes. Here is what it looks like on my SSD: [ATTACH=FULL]30837[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]
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