Strange folder in hard rive

i have found a strange folder in my hard drive which i have not created. i am only the user using this mac. its called private... i found this after running omnidisksweeper.
i don't know i can delete this or not...
do u have any idea????... i am not finding this folder when i open my hard drive.. i searched on invisibility files also.. but i have not found........
where is this located.. in this folder, there is a file which size about 2gb.. i am not sure whether this is a file which is important or not........
how can i know this???.... if i delete this, any thing will happen or not..?????
regards

You should leave it alone....it is part of OSX at the root level.....
http://www.westwind.com/reference/os-x/invisibles.html
.....you can Google your question and find out a lot of info on the inner working of OSX....

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