At 15:31:15 -0400 on 5/24/05, Fluxstringer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Friday I had 120 MB available on a 2 Gig drive.
I've read some seasoned gurus recommend that, to be safe, available
disk space should not go below 25% without regard to the absolute
size of the drive, eg., a 160G drive should have 40G minimum free
space. I know that looks excessive and I questioned them posing
this small vs. huge drive example. However, they insist that to
allow for all caches and "strange" happenings, 25% is the threshold
below which crashes and corruption are manifest.
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I have other disks for heavier tasks. This machine is sort of my
everyday,desk workspace. It has 1 and 2 Gig drives. It does email
and Browsing and associated tasks.
The only time it feels cramped is when the print software needs more
freespace which I found out soon after getting the Lexmarks. Their
software
ignores piles of RAM and insists on disk space for spooling which
seems cockeyed to me.
No crashing in the usual sense nor corruption just not enough space
to even trash things. The clear out and RAM disk idea along with a
check of browser settings have solved the problem.
As far as stuffing the drive with applications and files, that is a
harder problem to solve I keep weeding it out. The programs l;eft
seem essential because every time i take one off I find a need for
it. Soon it will have a bigger drive to replace the 1 Gig when I set
to the task of deciding which one I want to put in. Actually Anything
under 100 GB seems ridiculous to me anymore but then doing with less
is the reality of living on a fixed income. So I have old PCI Macs
with minuscule drives. ( My first drive was 85 MB and I thought it
was huge ! LOL ) Perspectives change rapidly . Don't they?
The 25 % freespace idea seems reasonable to me. The drive I was
referring to were never meant to be overstuffed but the situation
just got out of control.
The " Blob " ate it !
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Adrian
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