what´s taking up all this space on my hdd?

[Karl]

anthony baldwin wrote:
> Qparted tells me that I have a 137.73 gb partition with 34.92gb used, 
> but only 8.44 gb free,
> while Kwikdisk and Kdiskfree say I have only a 43.3 gb partition, with 
> 34.92 gb
> used and 8.44 gb free (at least the math makes sense there)...

My guess is that you have a 140 gb partition, but the size of the ext3 
file system is only 45 gb.

Try using resize2fs to enlarge the file system.

Karl