Help with hard drive set up?
I recently did a clean reinstall of macOS Monetary and Windows Bootcamp. But I'm not sure if my Hard drive is set up correctly, as there are some oddities I have noticed:
Oddity 1: Disk Utility Oddity
When I look at my hard drive in Disk Utility, there is a mystery partition called Container disk 1 and Container disk 2:
The container disk can only be erased, but not removed. I've Google around and lots of forums say that's normal. However, having 110GB taken up like that seems like a waste of space. Is it normal? Also, what is a snapshot drive?
There is also OSXRESEVRED. This is not a drive I made. I think it came when I did the Monterey install.
Oddity 2: Boot menu Oddity
If I restart MacOS and hold down alt, the boot menu shows the following:
It's showing two windows drives, but I only have one.
Also, the spinning icon spins continually.
In fact, when I select the Mac drive, the icon continues to spin:
Oddity 3: Boot Camp Oddity
When I am in bootcamp and select "Restart in MacOs" it says "Could not locate OSX Boot Volume"
I am not sure if that means anything significant.
Terminal Output
Here is how my drives look via terminal using the command: diskutil list internal
Code:
/dev/disk0 (internal, physical):
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: GUID_partition_scheme *1.0 TB disk0
1: EFI EFI 209.7 MB disk0s1
2: Apple_APFS Container disk2 819.0 GB disk0s2
3: Microsoft Basic Data OSXRESERVED 10.0 GB disk0s3
4: Microsoft Basic Data BOOTCAMP 60.9 GB disk0s4
5: Apple_APFS Container disk1 110.5 GB disk0s5
/dev/disk1 (synthesized):
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: APFS Container Scheme - +110.5 GB disk1
Physical Store disk0s5
/dev/disk2 (synthesized):
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: APFS Container Scheme - +819.0 GB disk2
Physical Store disk0s2
1: APFS Volume Macintosh HD - Data 51.4 GB disk2s1
2: APFS Volume Preboot 512.3 MB disk2s2
3: APFS Volume Recovery 4.2 GB disk2s3
4: APFS Volume VM 1.1 GB disk2s4
5: APFS Volume Macintosh HD 15.2 GB disk2s8
6: APFS Snapshot com.apple.os.update-... 15.2 GB disk2s8s1
Is this all normal? If not, how do I go about fixing it?
I am happy to do a clean install, but how do I do it correctly, so I can wipe away all the mystery partitions? Also, do I select AFPS, Master Boot record, Apple partition Map. There's a lot of options, and I am not sure what is right (and I suspect that's how I got into this in the first place!)
MacBook Pro 15″, macOS 10.13