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Re:macOS Monterey by FlagsAreFun on Monday October 25, 2021 @11:02PM (#28995944)
"Other" may be some local Time Machine snapshots, which are purgeable.

It may also be an APFS snapshot, which is _not_ purgeable (indeed macOS boots of signed snapshots now)

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Re:macOS Monterey by rcarmo on Tuesday October 26, 2021 @02:55AM (#28997218)
tmutil listlocalsnapshots / is your friend here. You can delete snapshots at will, and that usually clears up a few gigs of space.
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