Disappearing GB from HDD - Please Help

Hi everyone. Just a few days ago I had 6GB of free space on my HDD and just today it dropped dramatically to 1GB. I used WhatSize to take a look at my HDD. There are many files that seem pretty large except I don't know what their function is. For example, is OK if I delete the "windowserver_last.log" or anything in the "private", "var", or "usr" folders? Thank you.

The windowserver_last log is safe to delete; generally, you shouldn't delete any item outside of your home folder if you don't know what it's purpose is and what the results of deleting it will be.
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