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