Not seeing full available HDD space

Hoping someone can help, running Snow leopoard on a 120gb drive. It was partitioned previously and the main drive had approx 5 gb worth of avail space. Using Disk Utility I deleted the 2nd partition and merged the two. Disk Utility reports it now as one 120gb partition but im having issues with the avail space. IT now says
Disk size 120
used 55 gb
avail 5 gb.
Any suggestions ?

pezley wrote:
Using Disk Utility I deleted the 2nd partition and merged the two. Disk Utility reports it now as one 120gb partition
Welcome to Apple's discussion groups.
In Disk Utility, if you select that drive and the "Partition" tab, what do you see as the partition arrangement?

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