Delete Sleepimage orphaned on external drive

I have an external disc that contained a bootable backup of a previous computer. I now wish to use this external disc as an archive of items from that previous computer. When I removed all the unneeded files from the disc and de-fragmented it (iDefrag) there was a "sleepimage' file remaining from the original disc.
How can I access and delete this file from the external disc? It is not the sleepimage that would be deleted if I changed settings in the terminal, as that would only affect the current sleepimage on the current System drive. I can see (in iDefrag) that the image location is /private/var/vm/sleepimage on the external drive, and is 9 gigs in size, but I have no idea how to gain access to it or remove it.
Suggestions? Thank you for looking and your comments.

J A Bohrer wrote:
How can I access and delete this file from the external disc? It is not the sleepimage that would be deleted if I changed settings in the terminal, as that would only affect the current sleepimage on the current System drive.
Yes, but you can work on any volume in Terminal.
Launch Terminal then type
sudo rm (leave a space), then drag sleepimage from finder into your Terminal window, it will fill in the entire path to the item. Then press return.
-mj

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