Repair Disk Freed Space (80GB)

Hello,
This is going to sound strange but I wanted to partition my MacBook Pro, I kept getting errors so I decided to boot into recovery mode and run a repair disk. It all worked fine and I was able to then partition my disk.
Before running repair disk I had 30GB free, I now have 110GB free  -  How has this freed up all that space? and What was eating my space in the first place?

Another item that came up in another discussion was the swapfiles. As it works, the OS uses a virtual memory scheme to extend the amount of memory percieved by the apps. For some reason, MacOS X periodically starts a new swapfile for storing the extra memory pages. Well, went to check what was on my HDD using an old but trusty utility, Disk Inventory X. Lo and behold, hadn't rebooted the Mac since early January and there was a chockful of lingering swapfiles, to the extent that I got back almost 12 GB of disk space after rebooting and having the system clear out the old crud.
FWIW, here's a link to Disk Inventory:
http://www.derlien.com/
As for hibernating vs. sleeping, as far as I know, the portable does both. As you might have noticed, when you close the lid it takes awhile for the sleep LED to start pulsing, and if you put ear to Mac, you will hear frantic disk activity. What the computer is doing is saving the contents of RAM in a sleepfile on disk. Then it goes to sleep. If the battery should go flat after a week or two, or if the information stored in RAM get corrupted, then the system switches from regular sleep onto the hibernation backup. The contents of RAM get flushed and the sleepfile is used instead. So, you are really getting the best of both worlds; the speed of wakeup from sleep plus the security of hibernation.

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  • Disk Utility hangs ("not responding") when attempting to Repair Disk on Time Capsule sparsebundle.  Help.

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    OK, no takers out there, but I answered my own question (sort of).
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  • Repair Disk Permissions Issues

    I'm not sure I am posting this in the correct community but here goes . . .
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    You can ignore those permissions per support article
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  • Need advice on Repairing Disk Permissions...

    I need some input from those who know how to Repair Disk Permissions (under Disk Utility, for those who don't know).
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    Welcome to the Apple Support Communities
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    kevherb wrote:
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    Mac Basics: Time Machine backs up your Mac - Apple Support
    OS X: About Recovery Disk Assistant - Apple Support
    Create a bootable installer for OS X Mavericks or Yosemite - Apple Support
    How to move data to your new Mac using Mountain Lion and earlier - Apple Support also Yosemite

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