WHAT HAPPEND TO MY DISK SPACE

I upgraded to Lepard over the week end and all went well.
However AT the end of the upgrade I have only 300 meg disk space left. Before the upgrade I have abut 6.8 Gigspace left.
My understanding is the new operating system will overwrite the old one and all the space taken over by the old system will be available for the new one.
Are there older system files I need to delete? If so where are they? Otherwisethe new operating system is over 6 Gig on the top of the old system?
Please help me?

Two things- Leopard does take up more room, and if you upgraded, your old files are stored on your drive. The total can be up to 10G, maybe a bit more.
When you are happy, you can delete the archived files and gain about 5 or 10G depending on the size of the archive.

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Use caution with any of these ideas, your system may be set up differently!!
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I have a G3 PowerBook running OS X 10.2.8. I've noticed that my disk space disappears for some unexplained reason, although it does seem to happen most often after my daughter has been playing games on disney.com. Does anyone know how to pinpoint where the disk space is going, and more importantly, how to get it back? I've got an external hard disk and have moved lost of programs off of my Mac, but the gains are short-lived.
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Detailed look on Disk-Space-Usage

On the server (NW6.0-SP5) I need to have a detailed look,
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That is a stunning pile of information to work with. I did
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Sincerely
Karl
>>> Anders Gustafsson<[email protected]>
20.04.2011 13:03 >>>
>,
>> Are there any possibilities to get this trend more
>detailed
>> from NRM or any other Netware-Tools?
>>
>Sure, try NRM, select a volume, Inventory
>
>- Anders Gustafsson (Sysop)
> The Aaland Islands (N60 E20)
>
>
>Novell has a new enhancement request system,
>or what is now known as the requirement portal.
>If customers would like to give input in the upcoming
>releases of Novell products then they should go to
>http://www.novell.com/rms

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