MacOS – Prompt When Ejecting Time Machine Drive

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Whenever I eject the external drive that I use for Time Machine, I get this prompt:

Eject Prompt

However, in actual fact, this particular drive has got only ONE (1) partition, so it's rather annoying that I have to click on Eject All when this should have been a no-frills process.

Partition Details

Note that this does not happen if I simply connect the drive to the USB port and then eject it. It usually happens after a Time Machine backup session has occurred.

FYI, the backup drive I use is encrypted. Could this be the reason?

EDIT: In response @matthieu-riegler's question, this is the result I got from diskutil list. As you can see, there's only one entry for the external drive, My Passport.

Results from <code>diskutil list</code>

Best Answer

Could it be that there is a hidden partition available on that drive?

Disk Utility can show hidden partitions, but be default it doesn't do this. You can enable this feature by first enabling the program's "Debug" menu. Just enter the following command in the Terminal, which will edit the Disk Utility preferences file accordingly:

defaults write com.apple.DiskUtility DUDebugMenuEnabled 1

Now relaunch Disk Utility and you should be able to see the hidden partitions by choosing "Show Every Partition" from the now-present "Debug" menu. Do keep in mind that editing hidden partitions may not be a good idea in most situations.

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