Finder not reporting correct disk usage

Just installed Leopard on a MP 15'' and finder report my 120g disk has only 50g free. When I use WhatSize app it report only 32G as being used. I checked the drive for damage, and disk utils reported none. Before the install Tiger Finder was reporting I had 70g free. Has anyone else notice this?

Open Disk Utility in your Utilities menu. Look at the drive entry and sub-entry. If you have two sub-entries then the drive was formatted with two partitions. If you see only one sub-entry then select the main drive entry and click on the Partition tab in DU's main window. The partition rectangle should show how the drive was partitioned. If you see a large gray rectangle below a white rectangle, then your drive was only formatted for 320 GBs. You can try resizing the existing volume by selecting that rectangle then grabbing the handle in the lower right corner with the mouse. Drag down to the bottom and then click on the Partition button. If you aren't able to do that then click on the Add [+] button below the rectangle area to add a new partition then click on the Partition button. This will give you a second 320 GB volume.

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