on 06.06.2003 07:10, NGP at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > It seems to have found many > problems with the partition with Jaguar on it but says there is not enough > room on the disk to create a new directory. It asks if I want to install the > new one over the old one but says that some of the files might not be > accessable.
Hi Jacqueline, OS X is most comfortable on a volume that has at least 2/3rds of its space free. With any file system, if you fill a drive more than 2/3rds, there will be increased fragmentation as the new and edited files look for a large enough block of free space to write to disk befare erasing the earlier version. If there is not enough room to maintain a duplicate master directory, the bubble is about to burst. The number of problems that are being reported supports this observation, along with some of the spectacular drive failures I've caused by naively assuming I could pack 999 MB of data on 1 GB drive without consequences. HTH, paul -- Paul F. Henegan [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SuperMacs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | Service & Replacement Parts [EMAIL PROTECTED] | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> SuperMacs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/supermacs/list.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/supermacs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
