Harddrive space keeps disappearing

[sebisworld]

Oh, I am soooo pissed right now. I have an 80 GB drive (74,5). Yesterday I had 6 GB free space, so I decided to burn some stuff on DVD and remove it from the drive. I managed to free up 4 GB, leaving me with 10 GB. I put my Mac to sleep, woke it up, surfed a bit and now it shows that I have just 8 GB left.
I already emptied the trashcan and repaired privileges.

I checked all the visible folders in my Home Directory, they have a total of 46,1 GB in them. Curiously enough, Panther shows just above 50 GB for the Users directory, but I am the only user and I sure hope that there can't be that many hidden files. But it gets even worse: All the folders in / (Applications, Users, Library, ...) make up a total of 60 GB - but Disk Utility claims that I have used 68 GB.

I don't know whether that accounts for Virtual Memory, but even including it (5,7 GB) leaves two GB.

I think with Panther I could even fill 1TB.

*confused*
Sebastian

[Mac|caM]

I've been having the same problem lately. I don't know what causes it, but I've found that restarting gets back the space for some reason.

[csubear]

to find your disk usage the best way is to go the terminal and type

cd /
sudo du -h -d 1 *

that will give you the disk usage for all the dir in the root