On 7/4/09, Clark Martin <cm...@sonic.net> wrote:
>
> Bill Connelly wrote:
>
>> I've read somewhere if your free hard drive space is less than 50% of
>> the total, you might even have trouble running OS X ... don't know the
>> facts here, but you need more free space just to run OS X ... after
>> the space taken up by the Installation. I think its called Virtual
>> RAM cache. 40.8MB if you are talking about hard drive space, just
>> isn't enough, AFAIK.
>>
>
>
> 50% would be an absurd amount. A percentage value isn't relevant, the
> amount is principally tied to virtual memory which depends on what
> programs are open. A better figure is to not let free space drop below
> about 5Gb.
Well......this is the original 6 GB HD that came with this machine
4.67 GB for Mac OS X
896.8 MB for storage (it was gonna be OS 9 but I deferred it to storage)
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