How to install the macOS Catalina beta in its own APFS container<article>
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public beta out for macOS 10.15 Catalina, you might be a thrill seeker and want to test out the in-progress version. But maybe you’d like to hedge your bets. In the past, you’d need to partition your startup drive, which could turn into a lot of effort, or get an external drive—preferably SSD—and install and boot from that.</p><p>However, there’s a better way to have your Catalina and boot it, too. It’s even a path <a href="
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208891" rel="nofollow">Apple documents and recommends[/url].</p><p>With Apple’s not-quite-so-new APFS filesystem that replaces the long-running HFS+, drives are no longer organized into partitions, but volumes and containers. A container gets a pool of a fixed amount of storage on a drive when it’s configured, but containers can have multiple volumes. Volumes share all available free space within the container without requiring any other rejiggering—they grow and shrink automatically.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/3405588/how-to-install-the-macos-catalina-beta-in-its-own-apfs-container.html#jump">To read this article in full, please click here[/url]</p></section></article>
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How to install the macOS Catalina beta in its own APFS container
