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M1 Big Sur External Disk Partitioning
Vanilla installation of macOS on an external SSD:
/dev/disk6 (external, physical):
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: GUID_partition_scheme *480.1 GB disk6
1: EFI EFI 209.7 MB disk6s1
2: Apple_APFS Container disk9 479.9 GB disk6s2
/dev/disk9 (synthesized):
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: APFS Container Scheme - +479.9 GB disk9
Physical Store disk6s2
1: APFS Volume M1N1 USBC SSD - Data 24.6 GB disk9s1
2: APFS Volume 15.0 GB disk9s2
3: APFS Volume Preboot 240.5 MB disk9s3
4: APFS Volume Recovery 908.3 MB disk9s4
5: APFS Volume VM 20.5 KB disk9s5
Start of EFI partition:
00000000 eb 58 90 42 53 44 20 20 34 2e 34 00 02 01 20 00 |.X.BSD 4.4... .|
00000010 02 00 00 00 00 f0 00 00 20 00 10 00 00 00 00 00 |........ .......|
00000020 00 40 06 00 4f 0c 00 00 00 00 00 00 02 00 00 00 |.@..O...........|
00000030 01 00 06 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |................|
00000040 00 00 29 ed 17 e3 67 45 46 49 20 20 20 20 20 20 |..)...gEFI |
00000050 20 20 46 41 54 33 32 20 20 20 fa 31 c0 8e d0 bc | FAT32 .1....|
00000060 00 7c fb 8e d8 e8 00 00 5e 83 c6 19 bb 07 00 fc |.|......^.......|
00000070 ac 84 c0 74 06 b4 0e cd 10 eb f5 30 e4 cd 16 cd |...t.......0....|
00000080 19 0d 0a 4e 6f 6e 2d 73 79 73 74 65 6d 20 64 69 |...Non-system di|
00000090 73 6b 0d 0a 50 72 65 73 73 20 61 6e 79 20 6b 65 |sk..Press any ke|
000000a0 79 20 74 6f 20 72 65 62 6f 6f 74 0d 0a 00 00 00 |y to reboot.....|
000000b0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |................|
Added APFS Volume and FAT32 Partition:
/dev/disk6 (external, physical):
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: GUID_partition_scheme *480.1 GB disk6
1: EFI EFI 209.7 MB disk6s1
2: Apple_APFS Container disk9 415.9 GB disk6s2
3: Microsoft Basic Data LINUX FAT32 64.0 GB disk6s3
/dev/disk9 (synthesized):
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: APFS Container Scheme - +415.9 GB disk9
Physical Store disk6s2
1: APFS Volume M1N1 USBC SSD - Data 24.7 GB disk9s1
2: APFS Volume 15.0 GB disk9s2
3: APFS Volume Preboot 240.5 MB disk9s3
4: APFS Volume Recovery 908.3 MB disk9s4
5: APFS Volume VM 20.5 KB disk9s5
6: APFS Volume Linux APFS Volume 2.1 MB disk9s6
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