Fusion drive not bootable or mountable, although first aid shows fine

My end of 2014 iMac won't start anyway except the Safe Mode.

When I run disk utility, I see the "Internal" drive and volume "Macintosh HD": the two check-out OK if I run first aid on them. However, as you can see on the screenshot attached: it shows it as having 0 space and entirely consumed with the 'other' files and is listed as a bootable or write.

When I click "mount" nothing happens.

When I try to restore from my backup, Time Machine or re - install OS X, the drive does not appear as an option.

It seems to me that my next step would be to try to erase the disk, and then restore, but of course, I'm nervous about taking an irreversible decision.

My question is if disk utility "telling the truth" when he said there is zero space on the drive and it is not writable. Or is it another computer / drive State which could cause this appearance?

Assuming that it * is * the truth is "Erase disk" probably to work or I will probably have to reformat / repartition the drive? (Which is also nervous-making, since it is a drive of Fusion, and I believe can be tricky.)

First, are you able to start the computer in as-is? If Yes, then there is nothing wrong, and you don't understand on the managed basic storage disks. Or the disc is actually messed up because it appears that it is not mounted.

If you want to erase/reformat the volume, and then click the Delete on the toolbar.

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