Oh I see. I keep all my Apps on the OS X partition. That's the difference. I also download to the OS X partition. I wind up copying downloads to another partition and then deleting them from the OS X partition from time to time. But I can see that the volume of applications will lead to the need for about a 10GB partition for me. k On Thursday, January 9, 2003, at 08:10 AM, Riba wrote: >> How big do you think the OS X partition should be Gary? 15 or 20 GB? > > I guess it all depends what you put in your Home folder. Since I keep > all my apps on a separate partition, 6 Gigs is plenty for my system > partition.