Safe to delete old "Macintosh HD - Data" partition?
It’s important to be certain that you’re deleting the correct data volume since they’re named identically:
- In Terminal run the following command:
diskutil apfs listVolumeGroups
. - Find the volume group that contains both a
System
and aData
disk. That’s the one you’re going to keep. - The remaining volume group, which only has a
Data
disk, will be erased. Verify its name (“Macintosh HD - Data”). Note its device node (it will look likedisk8s9
except the8
and9
will be different). Be sure to be VERY careful about writing this node down exactly. - Run the following:
sudo diskutil apfs deleteVolume diskXsY
, replacing theX
andY
with the actual device node from Step 3. Again, be very careful with your typing here.
Yes, it is safe to delete it if you no longer want the data stored in it.