Partition of Hard disk

I have simple question. I am trying to create new partition of 25GB from Disk Utility but each time it given me this error:
"Partition failed with the error:
No space left on device"
Why this error occurs?

Your free space is fragmented and the way that Leopard takes a slice out to create a partition, not any different than Windows, is to see how much free space is available.
You could buy a program and try to defrag it and hope to have enough free space or you could clone the volume to another drive so that the free space is in one large unfragmented chunk.... but, under OS X, having less than 10% free space is risky, can lead to data loss or directory being corrupt.
You need a larger hard drive. Or to off load some files to another drive. Then format the internal drive after cloning (Disk Utility: Restore can copy to another disk). And restore. Not hard really at all.
Just think of what you would do with Ghost or True Image.
The best way to get a handle on OS X would be "Missing Manual: Leopard Edition"
http://books.slashdot.org/books/08/02/27/1551206.shtml

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