Duplicate Folders Occupying Physical Disk Space in /Volume

It all started when I tried to restore from the Time Machine and it threw a error back stating that there is no disk available. I was wondering how come as I have a 120GB Partition for the Mac OS and I only have around 50 GB of data in my folders. I tried to find out what is happening and finally figured that my entire Macintosh HD has a duplicate copy inside the /Volumes folder. I went to the XTERM to investigate and found that the / (root) has a Users folder where all my stuffs like pictures, music, movies, documents reside and the same data or content is duplicated in the /Volumes/Macintosh HD/Users folder
I first thought that it was only a link, but later was shocked to find out that it is not a link and it is indeed a physical copy of all my User folders inside the /Volumes/Macintosh HD/Users folder and actually occupying almost another 50 GB of my Hard disk space.
I am not sure how this happened or how it is duplicating itself. I am also afraid to delete the stuffs inside the /Volumes folder as it might crash my system (it is already hidden - I assume it is hidden for some purpose). Please suggest any options, how I can get rid of these duplicated data and how to avoid such duplication in the future and is it safe to delete those duplicated files and folders in the /Volumes path.
Thanks
Regards
Chelvam.S.T

Those folders may be created if an attempt is made to access another drive when it isn't available to the computer. They can be deleted normally.
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    So I ran the command
    sudo du -chxd 1 /
    it reported that /Volumes was using 39Gb
    Obviously I don't just want to remove what is in there as it is all the mounted volumes and I don't want to risk deleting data on them
    how can I clear out this phantom data?

    /Volumes contains entries for every mounted volume on your computer, so if you have any external hard disks, CDs, DVDs, or additional partitions they are show up in /Volumes and will therefore be included in that figure. What's more the actual boot drive itself also shows up in /Volumes. However normally this should not be an issue because the du (diskspace usage) command is clever enough to know the difference between files on one drive/volume/partition or another.
    What I have seen happen however on a server providing network home directories is a crash to upset entries in the /Volumes directory. What happens is that normally you have an additional volume mounted on your server, lets say it is called Users this will therefore show up in /Volumes as /Volumes/Users this is then shared by the server and network login accounts store their home directories in this. Lets say there is then a crash on the server, because there has been a crash the normal shutdown process has not occurred and as a result the normal steps that 'unmount' this volume have not occurred. Therefore when the server is rebooted the folder /Volumes/Users still exists. What can happen then is that the auto-mount process will 'mount' the volume against a new entry called /Volumes/Users-1 even though it still shows in the Finder as just having the name Users. In fact if you connected two volumes at the same time with the same name the same thing happens.
    At this point we now have two entries in /Volumes one called /Volumes/Users which is a left over from before the crash, and the new live entry which is called /Volumes/Users-1 the problem is that Open Directory is telling the users to access and store their network home directories in /Volumes/Users and that left over folder is being automatically shared by the server. Therefore when a user logs in they start automatically putting files in that leftover folder which is actually on the boot drive and no longer corresponds to the second volume.
    Potentially several Gigabytes of data could end up in their incorrect entry.
    You need to see what stuff in /Volumes is actually making up your disk space use. You can do this by the following command
    sudo du -achx /Volumes
    This should list all files/folders on the boot drive that are in /Volumes but exclude files stored on mounted drives.

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