Why does my macbook only show 30% of the hd space?

My macbook seems out of space, of 232,5 GB only 2,37GB are available, but from leggible data I only have 84,5 GB on my hd,
what is the rest of the memory full with?
interesting is also that my macbook is called name-macbook-7 - this is my first and only macbook!
and in the section 'About This Mac' / More Info...   it says name's MacBook (4), where does this come from?

Hello Dustin,
In Finder's Menu, select Go menu>Go to Folder, and go to "/volumes". (no quotes)
Volumes is where an alias to your hard drive ("/" at boot) is placed at startup, and where all the "mount points" for auxiliary drives are created for you to access them. This folder is normally hidden from view.
Drives with an extra 1 on the end have a side-effect of mounting a drive with the same name as the system already think exists. Try trashing the duplicates with a 1 or 2 if there are no real files in them, and reboot.
If it does contain data...
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS2474
Open Console in Utilities & see if there are any clues or repeating messages going by?
How much free space is on the HD, where has all the space gone?
OmniDiskSweeper is likely the easiest/best, and is now free...
http://www.omnigroup.com/applications/omnidisksweeper/download/

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