Make my powerbook run like new

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—> Always keep at least 10-15% free space on the hard
drive.
Good luck!
Axl
I have heard this before but it never made any sense to me. For instance, If you have an 80GB hard drive you would need to keep at least 8GB free. If you only have a 20GB drive then a mere 2GB would be all that is required. Doesn't sound very logical.
So I set out to do an experiment. I have a 30GB drive with about half of it free. I then duplicated several folders (Users, Applications, and a few other small folders) until I only had 268MB free. That is less than 1 percent of the 30GB hard drive's size! Next I logged out and back in again and launched several apps, among them my web browser, Appleworks, Acrobat Reader, VLC, Handbrake and Mail. I opened a document in each of them so as to make sure that they had set up their temp files if any were required. With the Handbrake program I began ripping a DVD movie. Next I logged onto the Internet and started browsing as usual.
I was not able to discern any difference in the performance of my 1GHz ibook. The browser performed identically. Handbrake ripped the DVD at the same rate as always. Opening finder windows is just as quick as it has ever been. When doing a Get Info on the Hard Drive, I see that my free space has decreased from 268MB to 251MB. Appearantly the ibook is very happy with only 17MB of working room in spite of all the apps I have running.
Therefore my conclusion is that there is very little 'meat' in the "10 percent of your drive space needing to be free."
Maqybe there are situations that require more than the very few megabytes of free drive space that I seem to need, running the apps I run, but 10 percent of a 30GB drive is way overkill in my estimation. No discernable performance hit!

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