[MacRules]

I found a ton of wasted disk space today and wanted to share what I learned incase it has happened to others. I have been low on space and finally did some clean up and also purchased an external drive. I am an old UNIX user and do poke around in terminal occasionally. Today I was just creating a backup shell file and happened to look in the /Volumes directory to make sure my target was correct when I spotted some dmg files that were directly in the /Volumes directory. They were not mounted, not links, and they were very old. I did recognize them and can’t explain how they got there. One was an IDVD project and another was a dmg I created with DIsk Utility. After I copied them off (just in case) I deleted them and recovered gigs of space.
I wanted to pass this on because I don’t think you can see files in the /Volumes directory unless you are in terminal and others could have gigs of space just waiting to be reclaimed.

[Uncle Skeleton]

FYI you can see the contents of the /Volumes directory (or just about any hidden directory) in the Finder by typing the path in the Finder's "Go To Folder..." prompt.

[Simon]

You might also want to check out the free tool WhatSize. I looks like a simple column-view file browser, but it lists files and folders by size, shows hidden directories, etc. It's a very simple way to find and recover wasted disk space.