Second Partitions when using NOOBS

[Smeddy]

Hello All,

I am new to Raspberry Pi and am curious about how NOOBS sets up its partitions.

I mistakenly setup both Raspbian and Scratch and am not sure if this has something do to with my issue.

Using Gparted, I wanted to see how much available space I had an noticed there are two partitions that look like OS partitions.
When looking at the OS_Congif.json i see only one "flavor" being Raspbian, and it looks to have two partitions

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{
 "description" : "A Debian wheezy port, optimised for the Raspberry Pi",
 "flavour" : "Raspbian",
 "imagefolder" : "/mnt/os/Raspbian",
 "keyboard" : "us",
 "language" : "us",
 "partitions" : [
"/dev/mmcblk0p7",
"/dev/mmcblk0p8"
],
 "release_date" : "2015-05-05",
 "videomode" : 0
}

I would like to reclaim this second partition if it is not use but am not sure how to ID their use, and what that would do to the NOOB launch partition selector.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks!

[kusti8]

That's normal. On the NOOBS github page in the wiki there is an explanation of the partitions, but to get you started:
/dev/mmcblk0p7 is the boot partition, where the files are stored that boot the raspberry pi.
/dev/mmcblk0p8 is where all of your files live. You shouldn't delete any of these partitions because all are needed for it to work correctly. If you want to save a little space, you can google on how to burn Raspbian directly instead of using NOOBS.

[Smeddy]

Fantastic...

Thanks for the info...