Compare to the 30-year-old HFS+HFS+, APFS has many new features and benefits, such as improved storage, faster performance, enhanced data integrity, encryption, etc. Once macOS 10.13 was released, Apple made APFS available to every Mac computer, iPhone, and iPad owner, eventually APFS replaced HFS+.
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When and if you upgrade your system to macOS 10.13 High Sierra, 10.14 Mojave, or 10.15 Catalina, the system drive will be automatically converted HFS+ to APFS. If you upgrade to macOS 10.13 High Sierra, 10.14 Mojave, or 10.15 Catalina, you might have spent some time experimenting with APFS (Apple File Stem). This is a completely different file system, which comes with some new concepts for formatting and managing your Mac drives.
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Therefore, many people don't know how to delete an APFS partition, container, volume. I got a "Your disk is almost full" message. When checking storage, "Other volumes in container" was taking up to 30GB, but it constantly changed. How to delete this APFS partition? Any suggestion will be appreciated! Sometimes it took a gig or two, and other times 30GB. Similar to the example above, lots of Mac users have noticed some weird stuff called "Other Volumes in Container" in Disk Utility. It's impossible to ignore them as these volumes always take hundreds of gigabytes of your Mac hard drive space and their size keeps growing. In this case, you may wonder what is other volumes in the container and how to get rid of them on Mac to free up space on Macintosh HD. No matter what the reason you decide to delete an APFS partition, just follow the step-by-step tutorial. Before you start deleting an APFS partition, container, volumeġ. When deleting an APFS partition, all data stored on the partition will be erased and the partition will be removed( erasing APFS only clears the contents but remains the partition. Therefore, before you proceed, please make sure you have made a complete backup of your important data.
You can manually take a backup of your files on any external drive. Alternatively, you can also turn on Time Machine, take advantage of iCloud or Google Drive.Ģ. Please note that under APFS, there is a new concept: container. A Container is the basic storage unit for APFS. Every APFS container contains one or more volumes. And a physical drive can be divided into several containers.
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