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<blockquote data-quote="rbpeirce" data-source="post: 1927963" data-attributes="member: 410088">Exactly.&nbsp; The container is a physical partition and there can be more than one on a drive.&nbsp; I'm talking about how Drobo Desktop sees them.&nbsp; The container/partition may actually be empty but Drobo sees an APFS partition as full.&nbsp; On the previous format it showed actual usage.&nbsp; Volumes are incidental to this except they share the capacity of the container/partition.This isn't a network drive.&nbsp; It is attached.&nbsp; Many Mac users have used them for years.&nbsp; It was previously formatted as what Apple calls Mac OS Extended, at least that's how it looked to the OS.&nbsp; I have no idea how it was physically formatted.&nbsp; I'm willing to try something to see if it works.&nbsp; In this case it did, or at least, that's how it looks to the OS.Maybe the underlying drive is still formatted something else but I can't see it.&nbsp; It looks like an APFS drive to the computer.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="rbpeirce, post: 1927963, member: 410088"] Exactly. The container is a physical partition and there can be more than one on a drive. I'm talking about how Drobo Desktop sees them. The container/partition may actually be empty but Drobo sees an APFS partition as full. On the previous format it showed actual usage. Volumes are incidental to this except they share the capacity of the container/partition. This isn't a network drive. It is attached. Many Mac users have used them for years. It was previously formatted as what Apple calls Mac OS Extended, at least that's how it looked to the OS. I have no idea how it was physically formatted. I'm willing to try something to see if it works. In this case it did, or at least, that's how it looks to the OS. Maybe the underlying drive is still formatted something else but I can't see it. It looks like an APFS drive to the computer. [/QUOTE]

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