

In the General pane, the Capacity, Available (free space), and space Used on your startup disk will be displayed, as seen in the following screen shot: The Get Info window for your startup disk will open.Press the Command-I keyboard combination.In Finder®, select your startup disk's icon.To check how much free space is available on your startup disk: Determining available space on your startup disk Additional tips are provided for saving more space if you have a second internal hard drive or an available partition. While you could replace your current hard drive with a larger model, or install a second internal hard drive if your Mac will support such, the following tips will help you to free some space without changing your hardware. This extract from a chapter of our book Troubleshooting Mac® OS X describes several ways to free-up space on your Mac OS X startup disk, also known as your Mac OS X boot volume.


Freeing space on your Mac OS X startup disk
