At 06:00 PM +1000 05/27/2005, David Elmo wrote:
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
I totally disagree.
The free space you need has nothing to do with the size of the HD.
The file systems (HFS, HFS+) needs to have about 5 MB to do index
re-writes comfortably, but they can survive on <1 MB. That's all.
Now consider the scratch space requirements on your boot volume:
The swapfile (virtual memory) aside, the classic Mac OS itself needs
only about 50 MB scratch, max. This is to hold OT's cache, the grody
mess of Navigation Services, Recent File/Server/etc aliases, etc.
Add another n MB for each browser cache. I tend to limit my browsers
to 10 or 20 MB each. Any more than that is just wasted, because most
of the sites I peruse are dynamic (so they aren't cached).
And I like to have 500 MB to a full GB available for the printer
drivers to stash the spooled files and their rastering temp files.
FWIW,
- Dan.
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