Laughing Man Posted September 12, 2007 Share Posted September 12, 2007 On my laptop I have 160 GBs (I think it's a built in SATA drive?). Anyway, I currently have it partitioned so that about 15 GBs of it is for my Ubuntu + a 3 GB swap (only way to get it to suspend correctly). I still have about 67 GBs free on my Vista partition. But I'd prefer to let it keep most of it. Since I use my NTFS drive as the inbetween Linux and Vista (since I switch between the two whenever I'm bored and since I can read NTFS partitions with NTFS 3-G). So what's the average size you would recomend me giving a OSX partition? It doesn't have to be minimum, I'd like a little room to tinker (install some programs, try out some things people rave about on Macs). And does it need a seperate swap like Linux? Edit: Oh is there anyway to read NTFS partitions in OSX as well. If this does work then I don't want to copy my pictures and music (these two are the heavy eaters of my NTFS drive) over just to use them. Edit: searching around it seems for Tiger (I'm assuming this version of OSX is Tiger since Leopard isn't out yet) is 10 GBs for the OS. And apparantly it needs some for swap as well. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/63002-how-much-space-does-osx-need/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sapam Posted September 12, 2007 Share Posted September 12, 2007 NTFS is supported as readonly in OSX. I do have got all my mac installers along with the windows installers in a 80GB NTFS hdd. And as i can data from it am more than happy. FAT32 is required if you want to exchange data from OSX to Windows. OSX-Tiger require atleast 8GB of Mac Ext Journal Partition. I think a 50GB Partition is a good choice at least. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/63002-how-much-space-does-osx-need/#findComment-446213 Share on other sites More sharing options...
cbmkgd Posted September 12, 2007 Share Posted September 12, 2007 OSX Tiger requires a minimum of around 3.6 GB. And that's really a minimum, removing languages you don't use, and the multitude of printer drivers you don't need; can't do much with that alone, but it gives you at least the minimum upon which to build. How much more you give to osx will depend on what you expect you'll use it for, what you'll need out of osx. There are big apps out there (eg cs3) that take a lot of space. The above 50GB seems ok for moderately intensive usage. Just be careful of the following: osx's partition should be primary, and before any extended partition if any (to avoid problems). If the partitions you enumerated above are all primary and there's no other on the drive, then you're ok with a 4th primary. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/63002-how-much-space-does-osx-need/#findComment-446230 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laughing Man Posted September 12, 2007 Author Share Posted September 12, 2007 Thanks. Looking at the hardware in my laptop it seems my wireless won't work (oh well. I'll just stay in Ubuntu or Vista if I'm on wireless). The graphics is supported (So hopefully my laptop screen too). And since I can read NTFS partitions (not write but that's ok since I'm mainly looking for read access) then I'm all set. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/63002-how-much-space-does-osx-need/#findComment-446553 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paws Posted September 13, 2007 Share Posted September 13, 2007 OSX Tiger requires a minimum of around 3.6 GB. I thought it was more closer to 2GB? Also I think you can use MacFuse to read NTFS partitions now, although I haven't used it myself. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/63002-how-much-space-does-osx-need/#findComment-446706 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vasfed Posted September 13, 2007 Share Posted September 13, 2007 NTFS is supported as readonly in OSX.by default.but via some additional movements with MacFUSE + NTFS-3g it is pretty read-write, so that's not a problem, i tested it.I thought it was more closer to 2GB?it can be cut to such size, but even with 4 Gb space it is in fact unusable 'cause you'll need much more space for applications and not all of them can be installed on other drives Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/63002-how-much-space-does-osx-need/#findComment-446833 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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