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    external hard drive filled - 1% free space left

    Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by wobble987, Nov 1, 2008.

  1. wobble987

    wobble987 Notebook Virtuoso

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    hi, im wondering if i can filled my external harddrive in OS X (hfs+) to only have 1% left of free space. although in this case the drive (500gb freeagent pro) will have 5gb of free space.

    i will only used the drive to store and read data, i will not run any application from the drive.

    is it ok to do this? will i lost any data or function (eg. journaling or spotlight will operate flaky) as a result of this?
     
    wobble987, Nov 1, 2008
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    Budding Notebook Virtuoso

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    You can fill an external storage device as much as it can take, since it does not need additional space to store temporary OS files etc.
     
    Budding, Nov 1, 2008
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    I've had 0mb of space left on my main osx drive, and everything still worked fine. So if its an external, it probably should be fine too.
     
    sulkorp, Nov 1, 2008
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    wobble987 Notebook Virtuoso

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    thanks :)

    btw, do you guys know by any chance if Time Machine backup will take over the entire drive until it is filled to the max (less the 1 percent)
     
    wobble987, Nov 2, 2008
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