I know, Ubuntu did this automatically when I installed it. It's not really a big deal to me though, since as you can see I have plenty of free space.
The 1.44 GiB of Swap did come in handy once, though. I accidentally wrote a script that kept spawning itself until it ate up all of my RAM and half of my Swap before I could kill it
I have about 100 gigs left from a 250 gig drive, most of the drive is taken up from old backups, i just need to save everything valuable to me on my WD and do a clean format to windows XP.
i dumped all my games and added some more to my 300GB HDD plus downloaded tons of movies, apps and games and put all my music on it and i have 198GB free, plus 13GB left free on my C:/ 80GB HDD