It’s often difficult to find out just exactly how much space is taken up in the home directory on your hard drive. IF you are comfortable with the command line, startup terminal and run:
du -h -d1
This will list the top level of directories from wherever you are (hopefully your home folder). The ‘-dx’ controls how many directories to descend. Do a ‘man du’ to learn more.
If you prefer a GUI interface, then WhatSize is what you are looking for. It’s free and a good tool to use. It’s easier and faster than ‘du’ in that it lets you rapidly compare different areas on the disk visually.
Now if you want something really cool, Disk Inventory X is an experimental application that creates a “treemap”, like this:
While not entirely useful, treemaps are cool in that they let you see disk usage in ways that are impossible to visualize otherwise.
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