>BTW. What percentage of the hard drive should be left free for disk >operations with OS X?
Joe Kissel, in his fine Tid-Bits "Taking Control" mini-book about updating to Panther (available at www.tidbits.com/takecontrol for $5) says that you should leave at least twice the size of your physical RAM available as open hard disk space for your day-to-day operations. --- Scott T. Hards President HobbyLink Japan (www.hlj.com)

