On Feb 9, 2005, at 9:33 am, Allan Hise wrote: > On Wed, 9 Feb 2005, Kansas Territory wrote: > >>>> I'm trying to figure out what the heck is taking up 8GB in the first >>>> place ? > > you can use 'du -h' in the Terminal to find out the disk space used by > each directory. This can help you track down the files. Sorry to butt in. `du` starts in the current working directory, so if you've just opened a terminal that'll only show you the sizes of files in your home directory; the OP might find that `du -h /` includes system directories. I also like `sudo du -hs /*` to get sizing for each top-level folder, and you can work down from there with `sudo du -hs /Applications/*` and so on. Stroller