Start-up drive full - when its not

Yesterday I rebuilt my xserve, with leopard OSx server. I've just got a message saying that the start-up drive is full, and when I get info on the drive, it is showing it as full. However, I've only installed the OS, nothing else! Not only that, when I go and get info on all the folders in the start-up drive, they total to less than 10 gb. I have three 148.42 GB discs, one being the startup and the other two will be for images when I get to it.
Has anyone got any ideas to what is taking up all the room?

Hi
+"Has anyone got any ideas to what is taking up all the room?"+
For lack of any details possibly a runaway log. Won't be the first time. I've seen the Samba log bloat to 200Gb and more for no apparent reason. The Print Service can also hang onto stale print jobs for no apparent reason. On the Server and if you're able to launch Terminal and issue:
sudo du -chxd 1 /
Be patient as it will take some time. If for some reason you can't run the command on the server itself use it via ssh. If that's not possible target disk mode the server to another mac and run the command again making sure you use the appropriate path.
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