hiberfil.sys

[Mikealongo]

Hello, I've seen the last video of linustechtips and when he talks about hard drive space and tricks to save space I made little research.

I used SpaceSniffer and i saw that my bootdrive (SSD) got only 2 GB of free space and there is a file called Hiberfil.sys occupying 12,7GB.

I have read that this file is used when the pc hibernate, my question is what happens if I remove it?, My pc is not a laptop and I never leave hibernation.

Im sorry about my poor English, but is not my mother language.

Thank you very much for everything =)

[Mikealongo]

Other thing, The boot drive has 57.5 GB an thers a partition (I guess) named Recover that have 45.6 GB of free space of the total of 60.2 GB. Its a lot of free space an i want to know iff is necesary to have it or if i can change it and how.

Thanks for all

[DigitalHermit]

 

Hello, I've seen the last video of linustechtips and when he talks about hard drive space and tricks to save space I made little research.

I used SpaceSniffer and i saw that my bootdrive (SSD) got only 2 GB of free space and there is a file called Hiberfil.sys occupying 12,7GB.

I have read that this file is used when the pc hibernate, my question is what happens if I remove it?, My pc is not a laptop and I never leave hibernation.

Im sorry about my poor English, but is not my mother language.

Thank you very much for everything =)

 

 

Other thing, The boot drive has 57.5 GB an thers a partition (I guess) named Recover that have 45.6 GB of free space of the total of 60.2 GB. Its a lot of free space an i want to know iff is necesary to have it or if i can change it and how.

Thanks for all

 

If you're using a prebuilt, best not to touch that partition since it contains the OS installer just in case you brick your system...

 

as for hiberfil.sys, disable hibernation before you touch it...

 

run cmd as admin and run "powercfg -h off" to disable hibernation...

[Mikealongo]

ok ill not touch the partition then.

What are the consecuences of turn off hibernation?

[Skandha]

You won't have the "Hibernation" option in the power options (Where sleep and shut down are)

 

I'm not sure how to describe hibernation, I guess it's like shutting down your machine, but keeping things open like if you put your machine to sleep,

 

I usually leave it alone on machines with lots of space, but my Macbook air only has 30GB allocated to Windows, so I disable it so I can have a bit more space.

 

If you don't use Hibernation, you can just run that command to get back your space, Disk space allocated to hibernation is equal to the amount of ram you have if I remember correctly,

 

You can always run "powercfg -h on" to re-enable it,

[vembutech]

I think this Is it Safe to Delete Hiberfil.sys will get you with some idea which may help you.