what to do with a really large swapfile

I have bought a new laptop. It came with Ubuntu installed. I have upgraded to 20.04.01 LTS.

In my root there is a really large swapfile, and that takes up a lot of space. It's 137.6 GB and it's last altered on the 11th of september (more than a month ago).

I don't think i need this file, i have 64 GB of ram. Is there a way to reduce the size?

output of free command

total used free shared buff/cache available
Mem: 65613160 2528548 60546840 98704 2537772 62259952
Swap: 134217724 0 134217724

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You can remove the swap file totally with this amount of RAM.

Run in a terminal:

sudo swapoff -a
sudo rm /swapfile
sudo nano /etc/fstab

and remove the line with the swap file from there.

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