auxiliary/checkpoints directory too large, is it safe to delete the directory manually?

[skaco]

Describe the problem

6 out of 46 node cluster meet a visible capacity growth. And I found some nodes' auxiliary/checkpoint directory is over 300GB now.
This patch(#37722) seems help, but can I delete all the auxiliary checkpoints manually now?

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[tbg]

Hi @skaco, yes it's fine to delete the checkpoints directories.