Free Space on Macintosh HD not showing up

After reinstalling a clean setup of Tiger, free space on Macintosh HD is not showing up on desktop, however the total size is. I have repaired the premissions and validated everything through disk utility, thus I did not resolve this issue.
Thanks in advance

Hi orians.anvari,
activate the hard disk icon and type Apple-i to get the Information window. Does the free hard disk space show up correctly? If so you ran into a known issue of MacOS X since it's very first release.
If you still cannot see the free space use WhatSize to determine where the space is used.
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