diskutil list shows 20 disk partitions, I only know 3, what are the rest?
Following the post FFFFFFFF problem with hybrid partitioned drive, not able to fix with the guide in other topics, diskutil list gives me the following big list of disk partitions, what are the /dev/disk3 to /dev/disk20, can I delete them, and how?
-bash-3.2# diskutil list
/dev/disk0 (internal, physical):
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: GUID_partition_scheme *251.0 GB disk0
1: EFI EFI 209.7 MB disk0s1
2: FFFFFFFF-FFFF-FFFF-FFFF-FFFFFFFFFFFF 217.0 GB disk0s2
3: Microsoft Basic Data BOOTCAMP 33.8 GB disk0s3
/dev/disk1 (external, physical):
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: GUID_partition_scheme *16.0 GB disk1
1: EFI EFI 209.7 MB disk1s1
2: Apple_HFS Install macOS Mojave 15.7 GB disk1s2
/dev/disk2 (disk image):
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: GUID_partition_scheme +2.1 GB disk2
1: Apple_HFS OS X Base System 2.0 GB disk2s1
/dev/disk3 (disk image):
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: untitled +5.2 MB disk3
/dev/disk4 (disk image):
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: untitled +524.3 KB disk4
/dev/disk5 (disk image):
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: untitled +524.3 KB disk5
/dev/disk6 (disk image):
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: untitled +524.3 KB disk6
/dev/disk7 (disk image):
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: untitled +2.1 MB disk7
/dev/disk8 (disk image):
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: untitled +524.3 KB disk8
/dev/disk9 (disk image):
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: untitled +524.3 KB disk9
/dev/disk10 (disk image):
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: untitled +12.6 MB disk10
/dev/disk11 (disk image):
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: untitled +4.2 MB disk11
/dev/disk12 (disk image):
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: untitled +1.0 MB disk12
/dev/disk13 (disk image):
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: untitled +2.1 MB disk13
/dev/disk14 (disk image):
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: untitled +524.3 KB disk14
/dev/disk15 (disk image):
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: untitled +524.3 KB disk15
/dev/disk16 (disk image):
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: untitled +1.0 MB disk16
/dev/disk17 (disk image):
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: untitled +6.3 MB disk17
/dev/disk18 (disk image):
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: untitled +6.3 MB disk18
/dev/disk19 (disk image):
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: untitled +524.3 KB disk19
/dev/disk20 (disk image):
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: untitled +2.1 MB disk20
-bash-3.2# gpt -r show disk0
gpt show: disk0: Suspicious MBR at sector 0
start size index contents
0 1 MBR
1 1 Pri GPT header
2 32 Pri GPT table
34 6
40 409600 1 GPT part - C12A7328-F81F-11D2-BA4B-00A0C93EC93B
409640 423829464 2 GPT part - FFFFFFFF-FFFF-FFFF-FFFF-FFFFFFFFFFFF
424239104 65994752 3 GPT part - EBD0A0A2-B9E5-4433-87C0-68B6B72699C7
490233856 863
490234719 32 Sec GPT table
490234751 1 Sec GPT header
-bash-3.2#
Solution 1:
I presume you’re running diskutil list from the Recovery environment. These disks are not real disks, shown by the ‘disk image’ phrase appended to the name of the disk. They are used to support Recovery as temporary read/write areas separate from the main HD.
Just boot back to a normal OS installation and running diskutil list will not show these disks as they are not necessary for normal functioning in a fully booted macOS.