Hey, let's not start a flame war here. Perhaps when the folks at Diversified recommended that I leave 50 gigs free, they were referring to 15% of the total formatted space on my particular drive (as they had just replaced my hard drive). Lynn -- Lynn A. Nichols, Starstruck Design Web, Email and Print Solutions for Future-minded Businesses 335 West Gill Road, Gill, MA 01354, 413-863-7752 Reply to: lynn at starstruckdesign.com http://www.starstruckdesign.com http://www.shopwesternmass.com David Haines wrote: > Well, that claim about 50 gigs is akin to saying, "you need to have 6" > rims for your car tires" - an absolutely meaningless metric in the > absence of any coherent context. > It's critical to have at least (a real-world minimum of) 15 % free of > the total formatted space of your drive, but then we start to look at > how much swap space gets set aside (taking up/needing additional drive > space) , which will depend on how much RAM you have installed. > Some drive space will always be used for virtual memory, as it's always on.