Is there a way on Big Sur to access the topmost physical disk of an APFS drive?
I have a 1TB external LaCie APFS-formatted USB SSD drive.
When I mount the drive on a pre-APFS Sierra 10.12 system, I can see the
protected APFS "Container" folder, which I can't enter into (which is
expected). But it does allow me to copy files onto what I assume is the topmost
"physical disk".
However, when bringing the drive over to a Big Sur 11.4 system, I can't find
those files anywhere.
Using diskutil it appears the topmost "physical disk" would be disk2, but it
doesn't show up as mounted. Is there a way to access it?
% ls -la /dev/disk2
brw-r----- 1 root operator 1, 11 Oct 28 11:15 /dev/disk2
% df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity iused ifree %iused Mounted on
/dev/disk1s5s1 894Gi 14Gi 525Gi 3% 553757 9373995203 0% /
devfs 202Ki 202Ki 0Bi 100% 699 0 100% /dev
/dev/disk1s4 894Gi 7.0Gi 525Gi 2% 7 9374548953 0%
/System/Volumes/VM
/dev/disk1s2 894Gi 271Mi 525Gi 1% 772 9374548188 0%
/System/Volumes/Preboot
/dev/disk1s6 894Gi 408Ki 525Gi 1% 16 9374548944 0%
/System/Volumes/Update
/dev/disk1s1 894Gi 347Gi 525Gi 40% 2583753 9371965207 0%
/System/Volumes/Data
map auto_home 0Bi 0Bi 0Bi 100% 0 0 100%
/System/Volumes/Data/home
/dev/disk3s1 931Gi 14Gi 596Gi 3% 553757 9765023683 0%
/Volumes/LaCieBackups
/dev/disk3s5 931Gi 274Gi 596Gi 32% 2483976 9763093464 0%
/Volumes/LaCieBackups - Data
% diskutil list
/dev/disk2 (external, physical):
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: GUID_partition_scheme *1.0 TB disk2
1: EFI EFI 209.7 MB disk2s1
2: Apple_APFS Container disk3 1000.0 GB disk2s2
/dev/disk3 (synthesized):
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: APFS Container Scheme - +1000.0 GB disk3
Physical Store disk2s2
1: APFS Volume LaCieBackups 15.3 GB disk3s1
2: APFS Volume Preboot 283.7 MB disk3s2
3: APFS Volume Recovery 620.0 MB disk3s3
4: APFS Volume VM 1.1 GB disk3s4
5: APFS Volume LaCieBackups - Data 293.8 GB disk3s5
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