25GB of not-visible files on bootdisk after backup-how to find and delete?

After backing up my iMac G5 internal HD to an external Firewire HD, the internal HD has accumulated an extra 25 Gigabytes of hidden/invisible files.
** How can I locate and delete presumably unnecessary hidden files?
iMac HD had 100GB used. I used Carbon Copy Cloner to clone iMacHD to iMac backup, which had been zeroed with Disk Utility. After several failed partial clones using CCC, I erased iMac Backup -without zeroing- MacOS Extended (not journaled), and successfully made a bootable clone, excluding only .Spotlight-V100
Did the failed clone attempts create hidden temporary files? Each time I tried, I would get more folders cloned, including the files at which it had hung, without error messages (mostly).
Visible folders total 95 GB -exactly the same on Imac HD and iMac backup
Using
sudo ls alh /.Spotlight-V100
.Spotlight-V100 totals 185 MB on IMac HD
Just before the above history, iMac HD had been zeroed, Tiger reinstalled, updates taken, and other data restored using Migration assistant, from iMac Backup, which had been the boot disk because iMacHD had twice, in the last 6 months, developed bad disk sectors ( invalid leaf count in Disk Utility, surface scan errors in Techtool Deluxe. iMac HD has just passed both those tests, for now.)
If this happens again, Applecare promised me I get a new HD.
(Applecare Australia works the same hours I do M-F, so I get to talk to them only on Saturdays)
IMac G5, MacBook, iMac 233 (R.I.P.) Mac OS X (10.4.8)

Wrong forum. You should be visiting the CCC Troubleshooting forum, wherein you'll find the solution Remove FALSE clone.
G4 450 MP Gigabit Mac OS X (10.4.8)

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