Os X says the harddrive is full 0 k available!

I have a major problem with my G5, it says that the harddrive is full and 0k available, there was 30 gb available and then I installed some upgrades (nothing close to 30 gb maybe 1 gb or so. I have thrown away a bunch of stuff and it still says 0 available. Diskwarrior will not run and the utilities program just ticks forever when checking the harddrive.
I can't copy to any of my other drives (can't pull folders to copy).
When I try to compress with filevault it goes forever and it is never done.
When use I show info on the harddrive it is the 149 gb capacity so the drive shows the right capacity.
What should I do?

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I have a major problem with my G5, it says that the harddrive is full and 0k available, there was 30 gb available and then I installed some upgrades (nothing close to 30 gb maybe 1 gb or so. I have thrown away a bunch of stuff and it still says 0 available. Diskwarrior will not run and the utilities program just ticks forever when checking the harddrive.
I can't copy to any of my other drives (can't pull folders to copy).
When I try to compress with filevault it goes forever and it is never done.
When use I show info on the harddrive it is the 149 gb capacity so the drive shows the right capacity.
What should I do?
FileVault is the absolute wrong answer. It probably needs more disk space temporarily and if it crashes, you probably will not recover anything useful.
Your best bet is to boot into the target disk mode and use another computer to copy or clone your HD onto another large external drive before you do lose everything.
Freespace on a drive varies as apps use temporary filespace, etc. Caches, and such, while hidden also take up space, as well as many other hidden system files.

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