OSX size?

steadiedhisrifle · Post by **steadiedhisrifle** » Sat Jun 24, 2006 2:34 pm

Quick question. I just bought an external, and plan to put an emergency partition on there with a boot of OSX as well as diskwarrior. How much room does OSX take up? I've heard you should save anywhere between 6-10 GB for this, but I don't want to partition too much or too little.

*edit: Can't believe I forgot this part. It's 10.4.

azusa749a · Post by **azusa749a** » Sat Jun 24, 2006 4:17 pm

If you want an emergency partition, why not use the Disk Warrior CD ROM as a start up disk?

steadiedhisrifle · Post by **steadiedhisrifle** » Sat Jun 24, 2006 6:48 pm

I did that earlier today and after 20 minutes of waiting it still hadn't loaded up. Waiting that long is just silly, so I wanted to have it available on the partition so I can just hit it up when I need to.

emulatorloo · Post by **emulatorloo** » Sun Jun 25, 2006 7:42 pm

steadiedhisrifle wrote:Quick question. I just bought an external, and plan to put an emergency partition on there with a boot of OSX as well as diskwarrior. How much room does OSX take up?

I have a clean install of 10.4 (custom install -- English Language support only, only Apple printer drivers) that is 2.18 GB. You are going to want to leave some room for virtual memory. So maybe 4 or 5 gigs to be safe? dunno. . .

do you really really need to partition the external? Why not just install OS X and only boot from it when you have an emergency?

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Klaus · Post by **Klaus** » Sun Jun 25, 2006 10:58 pm

Virtual memory has brought my mac to halt...
I'm also trying to not waste too much disk space and have made my partitions 5 GB. Normally no problem, but working with video ( rendering ) and opening another video with Quicktime did fill the empty space ( about 2.6 GB ) pretty fast.
It maybe depending on how OS X / application works together in terms of virual memory ?
I thought *only* OS X was responsible to deal with *how* virtual memory is handled, but maybe not ?
I learned not to open apps if physical Ram is used...
Someone chime in please ?
best

Klaus

steadiedhisrifle · Post by **steadiedhisrifle** » Mon Jun 26, 2006 10:29 am

Thanks for the suggestion emulatorloo. I'll seriously think about that.

Klaus, is your main Startup drive the one with the small partition? Normally I think you want the drive you actually boot off of to do your normal work to be fairly large. I was only talking about a small partition to run one program.

midiw · Post by **midiw** » Mon Jun 26, 2006 11:07 am

Take a look at purchasing/using TechToolPro.

TechToolPro allows you to create an emergency startup drive they call eDrive. It takes up about 6 GB. You can boot into that eDrive to do directory repair etc by restarting and holding down the option key and then selecting the TechToolPro eDrive as a restart drive.

Klaus · Post by **Klaus** » Mon Jun 26, 2006 3:14 pm

steadiedhisrifle wrote:Thanks for the suggestion emulatorloo. I'll seriously think about that.

Klaus, is your main Startup drive the one with the small partition? Normally I think you want the drive you actually boot off of to do your normal work to be fairly large. I was only talking about a small partition to run one program.

All my different boot partitions are 5 GB.
Different >
- audio apps
- video apps
- test apps
I don't use many or very big apps ...

I'm cloning / restoring bit per bit, same size partitions.

Best

Klaus

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