&gt; Nowadays, a full system folder easily tops 100 megs, and can easily have over a thousand items in it. A thousand! That&#x27;s a far cry from the six that made up the original system folder.<p>And now, on El Capitan, I&#x27;ve got a &#x2F;System that&#x27;s 8 GB, with just over 296,000 items in it.  And that&#x27;s not even the whole OS these days, since there&#x27;s the unix-y stuff in &#x2F;, a few bits and pieces in &#x2F;Library, and some more stuff that ships with the OS in &#x2F;Applications.<p>Makes for an interesting contrast.