Confusing Diskutil List result?

[Rolanddes]

I have a macbook pro with a 250 GB SSD in it. The diskutil list command gives a confusing result for me. It somehow shows a 98 GB disk. Does anyone know what this is? The result is pasted below.

/dev/disk0 (internal, physical):

#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: GUID_partition_scheme *251.0 GB disk0
1: EFI EFI 209.7 MB disk0s1
2: Apple_APFS Container disk1 250.8 GB disk0s2

/dev/disk1 (synthesized):

#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: APFS Container Scheme - +250.8 GB disk1
Physical Store disk0s2
1: APFS Volume Macintosh HD 98.0 GB disk1s1
2: APFS Volume Preboot 19.6 MB disk1s2
3: APFS Volume Recovery 518.1 MB disk1s3
4: APFS Volume VM 1.1 GB disk1s4

 

[cobracnvt]

If you right click on the drive in Finder and select "Get info", what does the capacity say (250 or 98)? I did this command on my mac and my disk container sizes match.

 

[mikzn]

Probably 250g is the capacity and 98g it the available storage? - my guess is the system files, apps and other files ( especially media) are taking the other 150g

 

[treekram]

With APFS, the amount of space taken by the differen volumes ("/dev/disk1 (synthesized)") might not take up the full space allocated ("Apple_APFS Container disk1 250.8 GB disk0s2"). The idea is that you can add another volume to the container if you wish. If you require more space for "Macintosh HD", it will grow, and you should see the space taken increase from the 98.0 you currently have.

 

[Rolanddes]

Thank you guys!