Help: Disk full after aborted Free Space Erase

From: Marc Heusser <marc.heusser@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2005 06:55:49 +0100

Wanted to erase free space on my Powerbook's hard disk (so that deleted
files cannot be recovered). It had more than 20 GB free.
It stopped, because the disk was full (200 kB left !), I quit Disk
Utility despite the warning.
Now even after restarting I only have 600 MB free - how do I recover the
free space I had before?

TIA

Marc

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