Hard disc and home folder capacity discrepancy

hi. am using a g5 imac , tiger.
my hard disc shows a capacity of 150gb but my home folder (and hence my documents, photos, music folders etc) show only 46gb available.
I havent partitioned my drive to the best of my knowledge.
I have tried running disc utility to repair permissions with no success - anyone know how i can make this "hidden " capacity available?
many thanks

You are saying that your hard drive in Disk Utility shows 150 GB, and when you click Info that also shows 150GB? This would be the hardware drive details, indicated by the name of a drive manufacturer like Hitachi or Seagate? Plus when you select that and click Info, the pop up shows the same capacity (followed by the actual number of bytes)?
Offset under the hardware drive in the initial Disk Utility list will be any partitions that you have mounted. If selected, they will show the name under which they are mounted on the Mac. That should give a complete list (bottom of page) of the mount point, drive size, number of bytes used, and number of bytes free. What do they say?

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