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Install OS X updates on hard drives with limited space System
Fri, Oct 17 2003 at 9:05AM PDT • Contributed by: Anonymous
The hard disk on my aging Wallstreet has only about 460 meg of free space. When the System Preferences Update function insisted that it needed at least 502 meg to upgrade to 10.2.8, I decided to see if the downloadable 40+ meg standalone installer could make do with less. It can, and informed me that it could install with only 172 meg of free space.

So, if you're unable to install OS X updates with the Updater due to limited disk space, try downloading the stand-alone installer. Its needs are far more modest.
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Install OS X updates on hard drives with limited space
Authored by: gvitale on Fri, Oct 17 2003 at 10:55AM PDT
Be (generally) careful when a HFS+ volume has less than 10% free space: the Volume becomes much susceptible to directory damage, that for the rest of us translates to a good chance of a disk crash. There was a very informative thread in a MacFixit forum few months ago, but I do not manage to find it now.

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Install OS X updates on hard drives with limited space
Authored by: tersono on Sat, Oct 18 2003 at 4:02AM PDT
yep - running OS X on a machine with less than 1gb of free space is generally a bad idea. There's a strong risk of having the swap file overwrite data in such instances.

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Install OS X updates on hard drives with limited space
Authored by: dieter on Sun, Oct 19 2003 at 2:03PM PDT
This is one of the better reasons for having swap space on a separate, dedicated partition. I agree, however, that it is generally a good idea to leave generous headroom on the system disk or partition.

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