How Much Free Disk Space Do I Have for macOS Catalina 10.15

Question 1. How Many GB is OS Catalina?

The accurate answer is 18.5 GB. The macOS Catalina installer macOS is about 6.5 GB and Catalina takes exactly 18.5 GB on your hard drive.

Question 2. How Much Space Do You Need for Catalina?

The macOS Catalina may take 18.5 GB space on your hard drive, but to operate it properly, you will need more than 20 Gb disk space to clean install Catalina.

If you're performing an upgrade install, you need to make sure the startup drive have about 6.5 GB of space to download the macOS Catalina installer and room for the files the installer will copy to the startup drive during installation. You'd better have 25 GB of free space available.

Question 3. Does Catalina Take up More Space?

Yes, it does take up more space. So, the iCloud based storage works best with Catalina as it provides 5 GB free storage space.

Question 4. How to Fix “Not enough free space on your disk to install macOS Catalina”?

If you encounter such a low space issue while installing macOS Catalina or macOS Catalina installation failed due to low disk space, then you need to free up space on your hard drive. You can put the Mac in Recovery Mode and execute steps to free up space. You can check out the steps below.

• Reboot Mac and hold "Control + R" while it boots.
• The Mac will enter Recovery Mode.

• Then, click "Disk Utility" to repair or erase a disk.

  

• In Disk Utility, select your Mac's hard drive from the sidebar.

  

• Select First Aid to checks the file system for errors. Reboot your Mac when it finishes and you can go on to free up space on your Mac.

  
• If you have a recent backup of your Mac or don't mind losing data. Click the Erase button and confirm you want to erase your Mac. After freeing the required space, you will be able to install macOS Catalina successfully. Click the Erase button and confirm you want to erase your Mac.

Bonus Tip: How to Recover Lost Data If Your Mac Stuck on Catalina Update and Won't Boot?

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• Download and install UltData on any computer.

• Then, launch the program and select "Recover Data from Crashed System"; click "Start" to proceed.

  

• Connect a USB drive to the Mac, and click "Start" to create a bootable drive.

  
• Connect the bootable drive to crashed Mac and boot it while holding the "Option" button.

• Once you are in the disk selection menu, release the button, and select "UltData – Mac" to boot the disk. When you have entered the system successfully, click "Export".

  

This is the extremely simple recovery method implemented by Tenorshare UltData-Mac Data Recovery. It won't take more than a few minutes to get back your deleted files.

Finally

Well, macOS Catalina takes up more space on your hard drive than usual. And even after the installation, the OS expands. So, it is essential to free up the required space so that Catalina can operate properly. So, if you are having a disk space issue, use the steps we have detailed on the article and clear up space on the Mac. While it is difficult to recover data from a crashed computer but if you use Tenorshare 4DDiG for Mac Data Recovery, you will be able to recover data even from a crashed Mac computer.