trying to reinstall Monterey but it keeps telling me I dont have enough space

[mrgreeneyes]

Hello,

I am trying to reinstall Monterey on my 2020 MacBook Air, but it keep telling me I dont have enough space, I have 145gb of free space on my MacBook. how much space does Monterey need to install?

 

[DeltaMac]

Is there a change in what you see for disk space after a restart?

What method are you using for a reinstall?
(Recovery system - or an external bootable installer, etc?)

 

[mrgreeneyes]

Is there a change in what you see for disk space after a restart?

What method are you using for a reinstall?
(Recovery system - or an external bootable installer, etc?)

The disk space doesn’t change after a reboot. I was using the recovery mode command+r when my Mac is rebooting.

 

[DeltaMac]

Can you not find out what is taking space on the drive?
Could possibly be affected by the system snapshot, which is part of how the macOS system prevents corruption of files. That snapshot may be interpreted differently in different parts of the system. Not really an indication of a problem, but just something that you have to consider when there appears to be a discrepancy in how the system determines free space. This might even be fixed for you when macOS 12.3 is released, maybe in the next few days.
You might even consider reinstalling through a bootable external installer, if you really need to do that.