inifinitely regressing "ls" drive under "Volumes" First of all, I am aware the &quot;ls&quot; command means list all items in a directory.
Yesterday an icon appeared on my desktop with a picture of a drive labeled &quot;ls&quot;. Looking in the terminal, I see that it is in the Volumes folder, and appears to contain everything on my mac, including a Volumes folder that contains an ls drive etc etc. I am not sure what to make of this. I looked at my terminal command history to see if I did something, and the only unusual use of &quot;ls&quot; I have it when I accidentally typed &quot;git config ls&quot; instead of &quot;git config list&quot; in the middle of other activity. I am new to git and was following a recipe, so don't know if config could cause something like this.
More info: When I create or alter a file (eg something like a screenshot that automatically saves to desktop), it appears / alters in the version of everything &quot;inside&quot; this ls drive, as though I am currently working inside of it all the time. The file also is accessible through (or a copy is accessible through) the normal path.
&gt; diskutil list
/dev/disk0 (internal, physical):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *121.3 GB   disk0
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk0s1
   2:                 Apple_APFS Container disk1         121.1 GB   disk0s2
/dev/disk1 (synthesized):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      APFS Container Scheme -                      +121.1 GB   disk1
                                 Physical Store disk0s2
   1:                APFS Volume Macintosh HD - Data     102.4 GB   disk1s1
   2:                APFS Volume Preboot                 81.4 MB    disk1s2
   3:                APFS Volume Recovery                528.8 MB   disk1s3
   4:                APFS Volume VM                      3.2 GB     disk1s4
   5:                APFS Volume ls                      11.1 GB    disk1s5
I think you just accidentally renamed the system volume to &quot;ls&quot;, probably by typing it while not realizing the system volume's name was selected. I was able to reproduce your results by just renaming mine in the Finder. To change it back, go to the Finder's computer view (Choose Go menu &gt; Computer, or press Command-Shift-C), select the disk &quot;ls&quot;'s name, change it to Macintosh HD, and press Return.
(Note: it's normal for there to be a symbolic link from /Volumes/systemvolumename to /.)