Showing Different amounts of Free space in DiskU than Macintosh HD

On DiskU its showing that i have Used 86.76 GB, then the Macntosh HD is showning that i have only used 36.57 GB.Im only after re-installing Lion on my Macbook Pro. HOw can i fix this?
Cheers in Advance

Cheers, this helped alot. It turned out it was the snapshots that time machine takes and saves on the internal Macintosh HD. which then the snapshots show as free space.
Cheers again
Stewart

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