05-14-2008, 04:40 PM
btw.... the free space isn't just about using it for virtual drive space. You start impinging on that space, and you'll get into the overlapping files on the directory nightmare.
You don't want to have to deal with running DiskWarrior for 7 days to fix it all.
As for 1TB = 150GB, no, I wouldn't go that far. But I certainly wouldn't want to get below 10GB because of all the space that is taken up by the OS. One look at your processes under Leopard will show you that nearly 10-15GB is allotted as the default, though it is both dynamic, and highlighting it will drop it down to what it has actually set aside... for a WHILE, then it will re-allot itself the designed in virtual scratch space.
No doubt about it wanting space -- but that having been said, I've run a Pismo once to zero, under Panther, and unlike a few of you at the time (Summer 05), I lucked out, and when I rebooted (I was using PS CS 1), I got my space back, and enough to start pulling stuff off the drive, and had no directory errors.
Some people use Onyx -- I like/prefer Cocktail for running the daily/weekly/monthly scripts for maintenance. I do find that running permissions and keep the desktop clear of crap helps, as does trying to get rid of the billion tiny files and screenshots that I tend to create and/or snatch off the net.
I see a clear difference between my maintenance partition's boot time and my primary, as it gets bigger. It's become much longer (perhaps a minute vs. 20 seconds with the sundial/clock running), and the same is true for shut down time.
I've used TechTool 4.6.1 to defrag a few times (despite what everyone says -- Apple offered up TechTool 3.0x as part of AppleCare, so defragging must have SOME purpose, and so I've run it, but each time I've done so, like any OS, I've done so with the possibilities of losing it all addressed via back-up.
The last "virus" I remember getting was some crap in 1991, that came on a floppy, and "Disinfectant" from Northwestern's Computer Science guru took care of that. That was with System 7.0.x / 7.1 on my Mac II with 8MB of BLISTERING 80ms RAM!
So... other than LOSING the maintenance scripts by turning it off, (and power), I see no reason to not choose what is convenient. I leave the mini on 24/7, and the Blue and White, when it is loaded with drives.... but the MacBook and Pismo, I leave off, simply because I'm uncomfortable leaving them run 24/7 for many reasons, all of them having to do with heat.
I prefer they don't do any "auto-sleep"ing... so I just turn them off.
You don't want to have to deal with running DiskWarrior for 7 days to fix it all.
As for 1TB = 150GB, no, I wouldn't go that far. But I certainly wouldn't want to get below 10GB because of all the space that is taken up by the OS. One look at your processes under Leopard will show you that nearly 10-15GB is allotted as the default, though it is both dynamic, and highlighting it will drop it down to what it has actually set aside... for a WHILE, then it will re-allot itself the designed in virtual scratch space.
No doubt about it wanting space -- but that having been said, I've run a Pismo once to zero, under Panther, and unlike a few of you at the time (Summer 05), I lucked out, and when I rebooted (I was using PS CS 1), I got my space back, and enough to start pulling stuff off the drive, and had no directory errors.
Some people use Onyx -- I like/prefer Cocktail for running the daily/weekly/monthly scripts for maintenance. I do find that running permissions and keep the desktop clear of crap helps, as does trying to get rid of the billion tiny files and screenshots that I tend to create and/or snatch off the net.
I see a clear difference between my maintenance partition's boot time and my primary, as it gets bigger. It's become much longer (perhaps a minute vs. 20 seconds with the sundial/clock running), and the same is true for shut down time.
I've used TechTool 4.6.1 to defrag a few times (despite what everyone says -- Apple offered up TechTool 3.0x as part of AppleCare, so defragging must have SOME purpose, and so I've run it, but each time I've done so, like any OS, I've done so with the possibilities of losing it all addressed via back-up.
The last "virus" I remember getting was some crap in 1991, that came on a floppy, and "Disinfectant" from Northwestern's Computer Science guru took care of that. That was with System 7.0.x / 7.1 on my Mac II with 8MB of BLISTERING 80ms RAM!
So... other than LOSING the maintenance scripts by turning it off, (and power), I see no reason to not choose what is convenient. I leave the mini on 24/7, and the Blue and White, when it is loaded with drives.... but the MacBook and Pismo, I leave off, simply because I'm uncomfortable leaving them run 24/7 for many reasons, all of them having to do with heat.
I prefer they don't do any "auto-sleep"ing... so I just turn them off.