A little more amnual, but you can do this in the finder...

Menu:Go:Go to Folder...

Then enter the folder to view (i.e. /var/log)

Voila. A normal finder window....

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Double-click your hard drive icon and go View ... as List. Then bring up View ... Show View Options and check off Calculate all sizes.

You'll hear the disk grind for awhile and the sizes of each top-level directory will begin to appear in the Size column. Click on the disclosure triangle next to any directory to see the sizes of items within it. You can even click on the "Size" tab at the top of the column to sort the directories from largest to smallest.

Of course, this will not turn up hidden files in /var/log unless you have made invisibles appear in the Finder. (There are a number of ways to do that, and I'm sure it's covered in some past tip, but I like using OnyX myself.)

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From the Terminal, type:

cd /
then
du -hs *

You can quickly see the big directories and investigate further.

If you are in a subfolder already, like /Users/username/Desktop, you will get only those items residing from that directory down.


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You may want to pipe the output to a file so:

du -hs * > /Users/username/Desktop/sizes.txt

and to really see *everything*, use sudo in front of the whole shebang.
sudo du -hs *
Password:

etc.

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There is a program called inventory x that does exactly what you ask. It will scann the hard drive and tell you the file size of files on your hard drive. It will even give you a color coded map of the files on your hard drive. It is also free.