Why is my hard drive running out of space?

I have noticed lately that I've been losing hard drive space quite rapidly. I had downloaded a Windows VMWare box from Modern.ie and set up in Parallels for IE testing, and once that was finished I deleted the original 6 GB file. I had checked the space before and after I deleted it, I actually lost hard drive space.
This has happened multiple times, and I read it might be a paging issue so I should reboot. Did that, still lost hard drive space.
Any ideas?

Ah, so I ran that and came back with the following. The two bolded items were part of my VM machines.
Verifying volume “Macintosh HD”
Checking file systemPerforming live verification.
Checking Journaled HFS Plus volume.
Checking extents overflow file.
Checking catalog file.
Incorrect block count for file Windows_7_IE8.part03.rar
(It should be 10094 instead of 179200)
Incorrect block count for file Ubuntu Linux-0.hdd.0.{5fbaabe3-6958-40ff-92a7-860e329aab41}.hds
(It should be 247424 instead of 1030976)
Checking multi-linked files.
Checking catalog hierarchy.
Checking extended attributes file.
Checking volume bitmap.
Volume bitmap needs minor repair for orphaned blocks
Checking volume information.
Invalid volume free block count
(It should be 55433475 instead of 54446025)
The volume Macintosh HD was found corrupt and needs to be repaired.
Error: This disk needs to be repaired using the Recovery HD. Restart your computer, holding down the Command key and the R key until you see the Apple logo. When the OS X Utilities window appears, choose Disk Utility.
I'm guessing that I should be okay when it repairs these?

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Checking multi-linked files.
Checking catalog hierarchy.
Checking extended attributes file.
Checking volume bitmap.
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Checking volume information.
Invalid volume free block count
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