Installation and required disk space

Hi,
I have just gone to install Leopard on my iBook. In the installation process when I select the hard drive on which I want to install on, it say that I need something like 6 gigs of free space. I only have 5 gigs free, so will this mean that I need to delete some files to have 6 gigs free and then when I install I'll have no space left on my hard drive and therefore need to delete a whole lot more stuff?
Thanks in advance.

In general you need 15% more free disk space than required specs to get best performance. This number is arbitrary.
See my FAQ* on freeing up disk space:
http://www.macmaps.com/diskfull.html
120 GB hard drives exist for your iBook which you can use to get more space. They are Parallel ATA (not SATA!).
- * Links to my pages may give me compensation.

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http://forums.adobe.com/thread/681490?tstart=0
Maybe this thread offers some information.
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Why does WLS 9.2 installer say "Insufficient disk space!" on OS X w/122GB?

hi all,
i just installed mac os x 10.4.0 about 4 days ago onto a brand new 160 GB internal hdd. apart from some upgrades (10.4.9, java 1.5, xcode docs, etc.) the only other apps i've installed are eclipse 3.2 development ide & mozilla. that left me with 122 GB available on my hdd (as reported by "Get Info").
today, i tried to install BEA WebLogic Server 9.2 MP1 (the ibm aix generic installer). the installer for wls 9.2 comes as an executable jar file that must be executed from the shell. i executed the following command in the shell:
$ java -jar server921_generic.jar -log=/Users/myhome/logs/wls92_mp1_install_02_05_07.logthe installer gui loads, prompts me for the license agreement, some install folder locations (i told it to install to "/Users/myhome/development/bea"), etc. then, it reports:
<blockquote>
"Insufficient disk space! The installer requires: 5MB for the BEA Home at /Users/myhome/development/bea and 270 MB temporary work space at /tmp/bea30536.tmp. There is only 271MB available at /."
</blockquote>
ONLY 271MB AVAILABLE!!? how can that be?
so, i tried directing it to install to "/Applications/bea". i also started the installer with an option to use "/Applications/tmp" (which i created with mkdir) as an alternate tmp directory. this time with "sudo" - just in case:
$ sudo java -Djava.io.tmpdir=/Applications/tmp -jar server921_generic.jar -log=/Users/myhome/logs/wls92_mp1_install_02_05_07.logthis time its:
<blockquote>
"Insufficient disk space! The installer requires: 5MB for the BEA Home at /Applications/bea and 270 MB temporary work space at /Applications/tmp/bea30537.tmp. There is only 271MB available at /."
</blockquote>
what gives? on my solaris box, i can do "growfs" to expand the space available to a filesystem. is there some way i can do something similar on os x? or is there ANYTHING else to give "/" access to more of the 122 GB hdd space that is obviously available?
thanks in advance for your help.

hi,
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that thread also explains how i was able to get workshop 9.2 installed and running on os x:
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appropriate folders on my mac..."if you have (or can get access to) a working installation
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supported os, then you'll need to copy the
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if you click on my username in the top left-hand corner of
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Why might WLS 9.2 installer say "Insufficient disk space!" on OS X w/122GB?

hi all,
i just installed tiger about a week ago onto a brand new 128 GB internal hdd. apart from some upgrades (10.4.9, java 1.5, xcode docs, etc.) the only other apps i've installed are eclipse 3.2 development ide & mozilla. that left me with 122 GB available on my hdd (as reported by "Get Info").
today, i tried to install BEA WebLogic Server 9.2 (a j2ee application server). the installer for wls 9.2 comes as an executable jar file that must be executed from the shell. i executed the following command in the shell:
$ java -jar server921_generic.jar -log=/myhome/logs/wls92mp1_install_02_0507.log
the installer gui loads, prompts me for the license agreement, some install folder locations (i told it to install to "/Users/myhome/development/bea"), etc. then, it reports:
"Insufficient disk space! The installer requires: 5MB for the BEA Home at /Users/myhome/development/bea and 270 MB temporary work space at /tmp/bea30536.tmp. There is only 271MB available at /."
ONLY 271MB AVAILABLE!!? how can that be?
so, i tried directing it to install to "/Applications/bea". i also started the installer with an option to use "/Applications/tmp" (which i created with mkdir) as an alternate tmp directory. this time with "sudo" - just in case:
$ sudo java -Djava.io.tmpdir=/Applications/tmp -jar server921_generic.jar -log=/myhome/logs/wls92mp1_install_02_0507.log
this time its:
"Insufficient disk space! The installer requires: 5MB for the BEA Home at /Applications/bea and 270 MB temporary work space at /Applications/tmp/bea30537.tmp. There is only 271MB available at /."
what gives? on my solaris box, i can do "growfs" to expand the space available to a filesystem. is there some way i can do something similar on os x? or is there ANYTHING else to give "/" access to more of the 122 GB hdd space that is obviously available?
thanks in advance for your help.
p.s. there are no disk quotas or anything like that:
$ sudo quota
Disk quotas for user root (uid 0): none
$ quota
Disk quotas for user me (uid 501): none
i also ran repair permissions, just in case. same difference.
Message was edited by: l'il john l'concharoo

found my answer!: java -Dos.name=unix ...

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This may be a longish post as I try to explain my problem... please forgive.
I've had my X500 for just over three months now.
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I've recently installed some other programs and have endeavoured each time to do a custom install to the D drive to program files [x86] folder. However, drive C is now showing low disk space at 5.58 of 59.2 Gb.
Checking the folders copies??? I thought for the programs I installed I find lots of folders/files in those program folders so taking up a lot of space.
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Should I manually copy the data contained in the folders [not just a 'name' ... ie; AVID... folder but possibly also in the drive C Program files [x86] folder] to the same named folders on drive D?
If I did, would the programs work properly or would there be problems in the program being located?
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Help would be appreciated.

Thanks for coming forward PauPau.
Firstly, when I got the x500 I had lots of documents etc., I wanted to transfer over so I used the Win7 Transfer program to make the back up/transfer images. In doing the transfer across [after the copies of] the X500 gave an error warning that the C: drive had insufficient space to do the full copies. At this time/stage I was not aware that the X500 had a folder migration utility. What ever made it 'wake up' and make itself known I have no idea but I used it when it did. My first problem was probably in using the Win7 file transfer - for getting files/folders across from the old computer to the x500!
I ended up doing a factory reset about three times before this utility made it self known. I found NOTHING in ant documentation about the X500 about this utility and how to make use of it when I bought the laptop. Not sure if you are aware of the make up of the X500 having 2 hard drives; a 'C:' drive of 65Gb SSD and a SATA 'D:' drive of 650GB. If you do then my apologies if that comes over in any 'bad' way. The D: drive is NOT a partition of 1 installed hard drive as your reply would seem to suggest you are thinking.
The migration folder utility, when used first time, copied/transfered folders across - even program folders such as Program files [x86] - and left 'similar' named folders on the C: drive. At that time I then thought that any future installs of programs would be put in the D: drive. Only when watching the first time for a new program install did I see it going to the C: Program and Program files [x86] folders instead of those in the D: drive. I then had to uninstall and do a custom install to direct to the D: drive. However... some data appears that it can NOT be directed from the install disk to the D: drive and still goes to the C: drive - HENCE the issue I am having with the small amount of remaining free space on the C: drive.
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If that's the case then maybe this is something that TOSHIBA should be looking in to solving if they are going to produce laptops with two hard drives - - - even if one [the C: drive] is of the SSD make to speed thing up.
I DO appreciate your input. MAybe I didn't explain properly first time... and maybe I haven't this time - in which case I apologies.
Are there no other X500 users with the same issue?
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Remove programs and missing disk space

I'm just switched to Mac a few weeks ago and I got problem when I remove program in my MacBook.
Is that ok when I just sent my program to trash and that's all for removing a program? I saw that's some program such as "Adobe Reader" it has a uninstall dmg file but another do not.
After I remove program, my disk's space still doesn't change so did I remove it? My disk's space's 120Gb but I just have 60Gb left now even I did not add a lot of program, so why's it disappear?
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Dragging a file to the Trash does not delete it from the drive until you empty the Trash.
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C:\Program Files\Common Files\Adobe
C:\Program Files\Common Files\Macrovision Shared
C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe
C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Adobe
C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Macrovision Shared
C:\ProgramData\Adobe
C:\ProgramData\FLEXnet
C:\Users\<user_name>\AppData\Roaming\Adobe
C:\Users\<user_name>\AppData\Roaming\com.adobe (All com.adobe files)
C:\Users\<user_name>\AppData\Local\Adobe
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Hi,
Yesterday I wanted to upgrade my wife's iPhone (5, 16 GB) from iOS 7.0.6 to iOS 7.1.
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Hello,
I installed Solaris 10 x86 10/09 using ZFS in vSphere, and the disk image was expanded from 15G to 18G.
But Solaris still sees 15G.
How can I convince it to make notice of the expanded disk image, how can I grow the rpool?
Searched a lot, but all documents give answers about adding a disk, but not if the space is additionally allocated on the same disk.
-- Nick

nikitelli wrote:
if that is really true what you are saying, then this is really disappointing!
Solaris can so many tricks, and in this specific case it drops behind linux, aix and even windows?
Not even growfs can help?Growfs will expand a UFS filesystem so that it can address additional space in its container (slice, metadevice, volume, etc.). ZFS doesn't need that particular tool, it can expand itself based on the autogrow property.
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Hi,
The storage occupied in recyle bin under PC settings is the same as the storage occurpied in the bin in desktop, that means if you empty the recyle bin in desktop, then the recycle bin at the bottom of PC settings will also display empty.
And regarding to this sentence
"if you search for the reyclebin it'll always return nothing, the only access to it is via the desktop folder assuming you actually have one, 'This PC' (aka 'my computer' or 'computer') are still accessible via search so why not the bin?"
I don't quite understand this sentence, but search result should be related with "Indexng Options" under Control Panel\All Control Panel Items\Indexing Options
Yolanda Zhu
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'same as the one on the desktop' well no, its not;
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Brenodo,
As backups are thinned, you will see a reduction in the amount of space used on the TM drive. This is entirely normal. Keep in mind that TM is designed to maintain a "restorable" copy of your system, and all of your user files, past and present. This represents a discreet amount of data which is only added to in small increments, really... as you say, any large downloads are going to a dedicated external.
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Scott

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