Unable to figure out where all the space on my Mac is

Hi,
I am trying to install some Oracle software on my macbook pro (Weblogic server). I have enough space on the HDD
$ df -h
Filesystem      Size   Used Avail Capacity iused     ifree %iused Mounted on
/dev/disk0s2   465Gi   46Gi 419Gi    10% 12010062 109876680   10%   /
But the installer keep prompting for Insufficient disk space! error.
$ pwd
/Users/SonyMac
$ du -csh .
26G          .
26G          total
I am not sure where is the 419 GB space distributed and how can I allocate more space under /Users/SonyMac. Any help will be appreciated.
Regards
Subhankar

subhankarsahu,
how old is this software that you are trying to install? Could it be that it thinks that 419 GB of free space is an impossibility? That message states that the installer requires less than 2 GB of free space.
What is the output from these commands?
x=/Users/SonyMac/Oracle/Middleware1/wlserver_10.3
du -ms $x
ls -ld $x
ls -l $x

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 if(randomInt >= lowerValue && randomInt <= upperValue)
 randomCharacter = keyFromCollection;
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}The Error:
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NullPointerException
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 at DistributionPlagiarist.main(DistributionPlagiarist.java:112)I will attempt to explain what this does in as few words as possible. For a breakdown of the lab go urlhttp://www.cse.ohio-state.edu/~paolo/teaching/494MJ/labs/lab8.shtml{url}. If you don't feel like reading that: THe program reads in some command line arguments. From there it reads from the file provided in the command line and creates "keys" from the specified length. From there I need to create a phrase of the specified length. If i am supposed to create more then one then i do. That is pretty much it. I can't figure out where (really why) the NullPointerException error is coming from.
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Post the actual error text (copy and paste, don't "interpret" it) here.
It should include a stack trace which references a line number of the program -
unless you suppressed the trace, in which case change your error handling
so that the trace is produced.
Identify which program line in your post the error is pointing to so that we can match
the error with your program, since your post doesn't have line numbers..
Edited by: ChuckBing on Nov 16, 2007 7:19 PM
Also - posting large amounts of code (as you did) will reduce the chance of anyone helping

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http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flex/videotraining/
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