On Sat, Oct 25, 2003, A-NO-NE Music [EMAIL PROTECTED], invoked powers within the internet realm, to proclaim ...
>I have to investigate why in why I lost >the space this quick. 40GB drive is not enough! I also have a 40 Gig on my TiBook. I've only had my Ti since February but started to get cramped for disk space in July. I do have a 40 Gig external FW drive that is designated for games. I think it's less than half full. I'd shuffle stuff over to that drive, but then I'd have to hook the drive up more frequently than I want - I already have enough cords to get tangled up in. My hard drive was caused by an addictive assimilation of the iTunes Music Store by my evil twin. If my hard drive had been bigger, I'm sure I would have spent much more ... I mean, my twin would have spent more. ;-) BTW. What percentage of the hard drive should be left free for disk operations with OS X? Anyone know? Is some of the slack taken up by caching to RAM? It was once speculated that Emailer and other databases might be more prone to corruption if the free hard drive space was too fragmented - especially when doing something like compacting, rebuilding and indexing. I don't recall anything definitive. I also don't recall hearing whether OS X is better at working around or through tight hard drive space and fragmentation. I don't know if this question would be too technical for this list, but thought I'd ask in case it's something I'd need to be aware of before compacting in PM. cheshirekat
