macOS Catalina renamed external volume name
I have an external APFS RAID 1 array made of three USB hard drives connected to my Mac Mini.
Before I installed Catalina (10.15) on my Mac Mini, this array was called "Primary" and was mounted as /Volumes/Primary/
.
After I installed Catalina, that array appears to have disappeared and been replaced with "Primary 1". This is an inconvenience because various programs looked for files in /Volumes/Primary
. I can deal with a one-time inconvenience. What's really weird is that "Primary" apparently coexists with "Primary 1". Some applications see "Primary", but others see "Primary 1".
Here's the output from ls -lha@
:
ComputerName:Volumes NonAdminUser$ ls -lha@
total 0
drwxr-xr-x 5 root wheel 160B Oct 31 07:38 .
drwxr-xr-x 22 root admin 704B Oct 30 20:42 ..
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 1B Oct 31 07:31 InternalDrive -> /
d--x--x--x 3 root wheel 96B Oct 29 07:56 Primary
drwxrwxr-x@ 14 NonAdminUser staff 448B Oct 31 18:34 Primary 1
com.apple.backupd.unlockrecordUUIDs 84B
I should mention that I normally operate my computer as a non-admin user and sign into the admin account for system maintenance and installing new software.
Why are there suddenly two drives, and why do some applications see one path while other applications see another?
EDIT:
Here's the output of df
:
Filesystem 512-blocks Used Available Capacity iused ifree %iused Mounted on
/dev/disk1s5 1953595632 21149624 1183122536 2% 483557 9767494603 0% /
devfs 407 407 0 100% 704 0 100% /dev
/dev/disk1s1 1953595632 709969192 1183122536 38% 609430 9767368730 0% /System/Volumes/Data
/dev/disk1s4 1953595632 37748824 1183122536 4% 17 9767978143 0% /private/var/vm
map auto_home 0 0 0 100% 0 0 100% /System/Volumes/Data/home
/dev/disk6s1 15627315072 10505155688 5120487720 68% 695289 78135880071 0% /Volumes/Primary 1
This happens from time to time when the dismount isn’t clean. It’s not new and has been around since the beginning of OS X.
Eject the drive and be sure it’s disconnected and then remove the folder where you prefer the volume to mount.
When you reconnect the drive, it will mount in the proper place again.