Minimum hard disk free space?

[TulliusDetritus]

Hello again, dearest readers and contributors

I think someone insinuated in some other thread that there should be a "minimum" free space required on your hard disk to run WITP without problems. Well, how many megas -or giga/s?- do we need more or less, please? My Micro$tuff partition is 7 gigas big, and I have like 1,5 gigas free right now.

Thanks in advance

[Mr.Frag]

Download will eat almost 500 megs.

Installed will eat another 980 odd megs.

Time to do serious house cleaning if you only have 1.5 as you can see that .5 + .98 = 1.48 [;)]

[TulliusDetritus]

Thank you for the reply, Mr. Frag. Well, I haven't been clear at all, so I beg your pardon. I should have said "how many free space will I need AFTER the installation", sorry -as I have said, I think someone mentioned that we would need this "extra" free space [:)]

Yes, my bet is on "I will have to hire a Cyber Cleaning Brigade" [:D]

[Mr.Frag]

Oh ... already installed ...

Each turn saved is about 2 megs. It adds up pretty quick.

[TulliusDetritus]

Ah, only some miserable megas? Perfect. Thank you again, Mr. Frag [:)]

[bradfordkay]

This has nothing to do particularly with WitP, but for years we (game nuts) had considered that with Windows you need to keep 10% of your hard drive free in order to handle all the swap files. If you are sharp, you can manually control the swap files, but I prefer to just keep a lot of disk space free.

[TulliusDetritus]

Well, as long as WITP needs Windows, your post is worth reading, Bradfordkay. Yes, I was thinking of course about that "10%" free space when I wrote my message. And no, I am not "sharp" at all [:)] I prefer Linux "system": the "swap" partition IS an *essential* partition, which you have to create when you install that OS: x2 the size of the RAM. In other words, I won't get my hands dirty trying to "optimize" *I stop writing here and roll on floor laughing my a** off* Microsoft [:)]