Recovery space

My recovery disk that is shown in the configuration panel is indicating that it's almost full.....2.6 go left of space for total of 22.6 go.....How do I empty this or format of What am I supposed to do with this ?

that's the theory.
once you do that you can issue a crosscheck backup and see what happens:
http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/B19306_01/backup.102/b14192/maint002.htm

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