On startup get utility screen, need 7+GB more room for reinstall OS

MPB working fine until I began downloading large real estate forms pdfs. This done when disk pretty full at 1 to 15 GB available. Worked on these and shut down normally.
Upon bootup got gray screen with Utilities window open with four options of repair, reinstall check drives, etc. I did check the drives and files and report is that they are OK. Foolishly I did not set up a Time Machine partition. Upon attempt to reinstall Mountain Lion got msg, that "Need additional 7.08 GB space to reinstall. Delete some files to reinstall." Problem is I cannot see the files to delete since cannot get past Utilities window.
Made a fresh Mountain Lion OS Bootable USB flash drive. Can boot up from that but on attempt to reinstall OS get same msg. that "need 7GB more space, etc" Now what?
gfp

My suggestion is to move everything off of it to a flash drive
Reformat the external drive to HFS+ and GUID
Then clone your hard drive to it
Once the clone is done boot from the clone
Cleanup the clone
Reformat the internal disk
Clone the external to the internal
Allan

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