Scratch disc full in Photoshop CS2

This may be a dumb question, but I'm new to Macs. I'm working in Photoshop and went to crop an image and a box popped up telling me that the action could not be completed because the scratch disc is full. I have searched Mac help, and photoshop help and could not find anything telling me how to correct this.
To me, if the scratch disc is full then what I would want to do is empty, or remove everything from the scratch disc. At least that's my simple minded way of looking at things. If that's what I need to do, then how do I do that?
Can anyone help me understand and correct this problem?
Thanks,
Jack

I told you it was a dumb question. I figured out the problem. I didn't realize that the scratch disc was in fact my hard drive. That was the first light bulb to go on. Then I discovered that I had inadvertently entered inches in the crop aspect ratio boxes instead of pixels, which was what I wanted. Therefor, the image I thought I was cropping to a dimension of 2336 x 3504 px was trying to crop to 2336 x 3504 inches. No wonder my 209 GB of space available on my HD was not enough. It computes to 194 feet x 292 feet. Rather large image wouldn't you say.
Anyway, sorry for such a dumb post. I was just confused enough by the scratch disc thing that I didn't give it a thought to check for some dumb slip up like transposing inches for pixels.
I do thank you for your response though...... all is well again.
Jack

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