WHERE DID MY HD SPACE GO??

Hello everyone,
I'm not sure if this has been posted in the past but, I've looked through the recent posts and didn't find anything that fit. So, I have a iBook G4 with a 30gb HD in it (27.82 actual). Recently when making a backup of my photo library to a dvd I noticed that my hardrive was nearly full. After making the back up, I took all the files that I felt I didn't need and trashed them. I then emptied the trash the correct way, etc... they're gone (great!). However, when I'm looking at my HD space I only see 11.4gb free. I do have some music and iPod stuff on here which totals 7.32gb and that's about it. I do have some addtional apps on there (Logic Express, Photoshop CS, Toast, etc...). I'm fairly sure that the mac OSX doesn't take up close to the 9gb that are still gone? Any ideas or does anyone know how much space the Mac OSX (panther)takes up?

I had a similar situation. When I first got my iBook G4, I had only about 11 GB free. The OS isn't neccessarily what's so large, it's the applications, and the support files. THPS4, World Book Encyclopedia, and iDVD, all came packaged on my hard disk, but I pretty much never used. iDVD and THPS4 both took up over a gigabyte each, and World Book had close to 800 MB.
The support files for the OS are quite large as well. Specifically, one huge example, are the printer files. There's close to 800 MB of data just for the printer information.
OS X as we know it exists in a sort of hybrid MacOSClassic-UNIX state. The UNIX undersystem exists, but generally isn't shown in the Finder. With the operating system spread between its classic locations (/Library/ and the such) and UNIX/BSD-ish locations (/usr/ /opt/ etc), it's nearly impossible to determine how much space is used by the OS, Aqua, and OS-related utilities (Quartz, etc.)
If you want to free up some space, I recomend you actually reinstall the OS from scratch. Go get an external hard disk (or an internal disk and a USB enclosure, if you want to save some money), or find some other location (large iPod, network to another computer with lots of free space, a Mac-Centric solution is recommended) backup your personal files, then wipe the hard disk and install the OS from scratch. You can then choose which components you want (Like support for HP printers) and which you don't (but not Brother printers). Should help you slim down the OS a bit. I think a default installation of Mac OS X 10.4.0 uses about 2.1 GB, but I could be wrong.

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