[X4U] What is private>var>vm>swapfile?

[Jeff Johnson]

If you want to reclaim some appreciable HD space, consider using Monolingual
<http://monolingual.sourceforge.net/>

"Monolingual is a program for removing unnecessary language resources from
Mac OS X, in order to reclaim several hundred megabytes of disk space. It
requires at least Mac OS X 10.3.9 (Panther) and also works on Mac OS X
10.4(Tiger)."

I wouldn't mess with any invisible Unix files unless you know exactly what
you are doing...

Jeff
Glendale, WI

On Dec 5, 2007 7:49 PM, Mark Des Cotes <lists at marksmandesign.ca> wrote:

> I'm using WhatSize to help me clean out my hard drive. I notice an
> invisible folder on the HD called "private" that is 2.3 GB in size.
> The main culprit inside is a folder called "var" which in turn
> contains the folder "vm" which holds a bunch of files titled
> "swapfile#" Can someone tell me what these folders are for? Do they
> need to be that big?
>
> thanks
>
> Mark
>
>
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