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Win11: How much free disk space needed?

Say folks, I am struggling with my Dell XPS Laptop.

It has a 500GB disk. I need…. every byte of that. I am constantly running out of space and needing to do cleanup.

I am stumped by 2 things:

  1. The system just magically consumes disk space. When I rebooted 20 minutes ago, I had 16GB free. Now, without doing anything, I have 2GB free. What is going on?

  2. Often, even after moving large amounts of data off the C: drive, the freed space is not reflected until I reboot (which is a pita)

So what is the word? Does it simply need %10 or something free all the time? (super painful)

Or ?