Where did 3.12G HD space go?

Yesterday i still have 3.12G free space in my startup drive, but i dont know what happened. Only 207M free space left. How can I know what changes made to the HD? Any way to get back to yesterday status?
iBook G4 Mac OS X (10.4.8)

Hi Ben,
Welcome to the Discussions.
Virtual memory (VM) may be taking the space. This is hard drive space used as memory when there isn't enough RAM. You can check the amount used. In the Finder click on the Go menu and select Go To Folder, enter /private/var/vm and click OK. Add up the size of the files there and it will tell you how much VM is on your hard drive. You can clear VM by restarting.
With only 3GB of free space left you are dangerously close to possible problems. 10% (15% is better) free space on the hard drive is the minimum. Less than that and you'll get slow down and with too little space, loss of data. Start freeing up some space by deleting apps you don't use and archiving old files.
John

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