Canceled making a new image in Disk Utility, lost hard drive space

Hi,
I was creating a new image (12 gigs) and during the process of creating it, the bar was no longer moving (for over an hour) so i canceled the process (it got a about 1/4 of the way through). But now it seems I missing about 3 gigs of space on my hard drive. It seems when it got canceled, it didnt remove it all the way. Is there a way to fix this?
Thanks

I restarted the computer, and it did not change. I ran all the terminal commands on that website, but nothing fishy came up. After i ran the disk usage command (sudo du -cxhd 1 /) it totalled up to 51 gigs of data. I have an 80 gig HD (79.68gigs) which should leave 29 gigs available. Finder says i have 24.17 gigs available, so I am missing some. maybe this is virtual memory being used? It seems like it happened after the image though. Thanks

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