At 4:17 PM -0500 1/9/2009, Al Poulin wrote: >through conventional wisdom. Or, with small drives or >volumes like a 40 GB drive, allow at least 7 GB of free space.
heh. Ended up, um, playing with a tight-space issue today. From OS X's POV, ... you need room for the kernel and system caches, paging files (/private/var/vm/), and logging. Room for everything else is optional. IOW, you can survive with only 2 GB free. Now, from the user's POV, if you want things to run smoothly, you need more. LOL :) Please note that by default CCC copies everything - including the caches. Not sure why the author chose to do that. They're stale useless data, really. To keep your backup a bit more trim, tell CCC to ignore "Library/Caches". Notice the lack of "/" before and after that string - you want it to ignore all the Caches folders, in both the system and user areas. - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
