Adding your own folders or files to them isn’t a good idea, even as a temporary measure. These volumes are also specially marked as storing backups, using a flag that isn’t exposed to the user. I suspect this may be to ensure that they’re fully compatible with all APFS variants, including those used on iOS and iPadOS. Apple hasn’t explained why that should be so, when the only files copied to them are likely to come from standard Mac case-insensitive volumes. For a start, they’re not formatted in normal APFS, but using its case-sensitive variant. Time Machine’s APFS backup volumes are different. There’s actually quite a bit more to it than that. The two volumes then share the available space.” If you want to store files other than the Time Machine backup on the same physical device, use Disk Utility to create an additional APFS volume on the disk. “The entire APFS volume is reserved for Time Machine backups. As older HFS+ backup volumes are on their way out and operate quite differently, I’ll only consider backup volumes in APFS format. This article looks at how you can do that, either when planning a new APFS backup disk or when it’s already in use. There are times when it would be really handy if you could use some of the space on that for other purposes, whether temporary or more permanent. For many Mac users, the only external disk connected to your Mac stores its backups.
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