How to Find all folders on hard drive by size

I'm trying to clean up my internal hard drive (232gb). I've been opening up misc folders and getting size info. Still missing about 60 Gig. I seem to remember, back in the day, there was a way to get a list of all folders on a drive listed in order of file size. Is this a possibility?
Also speaking of back in the day, why don't I need to optimize my Hard Drive and is fixing permissions the same thing.
Sorry for the two topics
Thanks

crowsfeet wrote:
I'm trying to clean up my internal hard drive (232gb). I've been opening up misc folders and getting size info. Still missing about 60 Gig. I seem to remember, back in the day, there was a way to get a list of all folders on a drive listed in order of file size. Is this a possibility?
I recommend [WhatSize|http://www.whatsizemac.com/index.php] ($12.99 US) for the following features:
It's the only one I know of with an option to show everything at once; the others only show things the logged-on user is permitted to see (click the +As User+ padlock icon in the toolbar).
You can use any of 4 different display formats (3 text and a pie chart).
There's a "Find Duplicates" feature.
It has very good and complete Help.
Also speaking of back in the day, why don't I need to optimize my Hard Drive
See: [About disk optimization with Mac OS X|http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1375].
and is fixing permissions the same thing.
No. See: [About Disk Utility's Repair Disk Permissions feature|http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1452].

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