What is the "Update" disk in /System/Volumes

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Created Sep ’20

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I recently updated to macOS Big Sur beta 20A5364e, and sees an "Update" disk on the right side of Finder under Locations.

Here is what "ls" returns:

Code Block zshjohn@Johns-MacBook-Pro ~ % ls -al /System/Volumes
total 0
drwxr-xr-x  12 root  wheel  384 Jan  1  2020 .
drwxr-xr-x@  9 root  wheel  288 Jan  1  2020 ..
drwxr-xr-x@  2 root  wheel   64 Jan  1  2020 BaseSystem
drwxr-xr-x  23 root  wheel  736 Sep 10 04:38 Data
drwxr-xr-x@  2 root  wheel   64 Jan  1  2020 FieldService
drwxr-xr-x@  2 root  wheel   64 Jan  1  2020 Hardware
drwxr-xr-x@  4 root  wheel  128 Sep 10 04:36 Preboot
drwxr-xr-x@  2 root  wheel   64 Jan  1  2020 Recovery
drwxr-xr-x  27 root  wheel  864 Sep 10 07:19 Update
drwxr-xr-x   3 root  wheel   96 Sep 11 01:31 VM
drwxr-xr-x@  2 root  wheel   64 Jan  1  2020 iSCPreboot
drwxr-xr-x@  2 root  wheel   64 Jan  1  2020 xarts

Is the "Update" disk new to Big Sur? And what are the other disks?

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ipurpl3x OP

Nov ’20

I also would like to know what this is and if (and how) it can be removed.

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