any suggestions? I know everything from a PlayStation to a iPhone will have a other folder taking up GBs but 127GB on a 250GB HD seems a bit much, any tips?
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Other Volume in Container takes up 50% of overall space?
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Yes, you have other volumes in a container that are sharing the same space.
The other volume is the one named Macintosh HD - Data.
It's all part of the APFS format. One of the features of that is to allow other volumes in the same container to share space. The - Data drive is where that 127.6GB is used. The graph demonstrates that each shared volume still has free space, with part of that space shared with another (or all of the other volumes in the same container). I can show you a directory on a drive that I use all time with 14 partitions, and one container that currently has 14 shared volumes, all the shared volumes each use space, which is shared by all the volumes in the container.
(Without that feature, in your example you would have two volumes/partitions, each with only 125 GB space -- and you would be out of space on the Data volume. So --- notice that the shared space helps you. It lets you have 2 volumes, each with 250GB space, on a 250GB drive. It's all about sharing! APFS format is good at sharing space, eh?
The other volume is the one named Macintosh HD - Data.
It's all part of the APFS format. One of the features of that is to allow other volumes in the same container to share space. The - Data drive is where that 127.6GB is used. The graph demonstrates that each shared volume still has free space, with part of that space shared with another (or all of the other volumes in the same container). I can show you a directory on a drive that I use all time with 14 partitions, and one container that currently has 14 shared volumes, all the shared volumes each use space, which is shared by all the volumes in the container.
(Without that feature, in your example you would have two volumes/partitions, each with only 125 GB space -- and you would be out of space on the Data volume. So --- notice that the shared space helps you. It lets you have 2 volumes, each with 250GB space, on a 250GB drive. It's all about sharing! APFS format is good at sharing space, eh?