806 The problem? When I originally partitioned my iBook’s 20 gigabyte hard drive back in January, 2003, 11 gigabytes seemed like a more than ample partition allotment for OS X 10.2 Jaguar, which officially required only 1.5 gigabytes of disk space. That minimum was as ridiculous as the fiction that you could successfully run OS X with 128 megabytes of RAM, but I figured I would likely not grow out of 11 gigabytes.

I was mistaken. I have a lot of applications and documents, and OS X itself has gradually grown. For the past six months, I’ve found it a challenge to keep three megabytes of free space open on the OS X partition, which I’ve determined is the minimum amount you want to have in order to keep Panther breathing freely. And OS X 10.4 Tiger is even bigger than Panther.

The proper thing to do, if I had the time, would be to back up the drive contents, erase, initialize and partition it, and then restore everything after installing a spanking new copy of Tiger. However, my spare time is at a premium, and I really don’t want to have to do all that. The alternative workaround is to use a repartitioning software utility to adjust the partition map of on my hard drive.

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