[X4U] Snow Leopard: how much room?

[Neil Laubenthal]

10 GB is more than enough. There is a lower limit that varies with drive size beyond which Disk Utility won't make a partition. You can put in a smaller number but it changes to the limit when you tab out of the entry field. 

neil

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On 2012-01-17, at 23:32, John French <jfrench1 at flash.net> wrote:

>>> ... Are there any authoritative estimates of how large I should make [a] Snow Leopard partition? ....
> 
> Ron Steinke replied:
> 
>> You haven't said how large your drive is. How can we give you an answer without sufficient information?
> 
> The information is quite sufficient. What difference would it make if my drive were 250 GB or 2 TB? Nothing in the size of the drive has anything to do with determining the smallest disk partition that can comfortably accommodate Mac OS X 10.6.x.
> 
>> My installation procedure was to divide my internal drive into two partitions of equal size. You might want to consider the same especially if you want to continue to use programs that Lion won't allow to run.
> 
> Trust me, I won't bother the list if the problem I'm facing is nothing more than how to divide by two. :-) Again, I'm looking for the smallest partition from which Snow Leopard can run without problems; nothing more. This is not a partition whose contents will grow over time, so even allowing for significant expansion is unnecessary.
> 
> Onward,
> john
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