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Does anyone know how installing Mavericks affects hard drive space? I'm running on an 128GB SSD and space is always at a premium for me.

• Udo 13y ago
  My MBP has a 128G SSD system drive as well (+ a big HDD for the data) and I got over 50G free, that's including some pretty big things (=25GB) in the Applications folder. /Library and /System folders come in at about 14GB together, I'd say a fresh Mavericks install should be around 30GB total.
  • aroch 13y ago
    The install is ~8GB
    • Udo 13y ago
      Really? For a fully functional install? Gotta wonder what the rest of that is doing there on my drive...
• dak1 13y ago
  I got back about 14GB of disk space after upgrading.
• eliot_sykes 13y ago
  Same here with HD space being at a premium. For anyone not yet using a hard drive analysis tool for discovering what's taking up all that space, DaisyDisk has served me well. For analysing Time Machine backups, BackupLoupe works well for identifying backup bloaters.