Extra Partitions?

[tock172]

Hello everyone.

I was using Disk Utility with the debug menu enabled so I could see all partitions and I noticed a few extras. One is a partition of my Mac HD as you can see and the other is part of the external HD I use as a time machine.

Are these supposed to be there? If not, how can I safely get rid of them? I am just now getting my MacBook back to normal after another partition wouldn't go away and I was unable to get the full capacity of my hard drive back.

Thanks all.

 

[simsaladimbamba]

That is normal behaviour and the disk identifier, which you just made visible via the Debug Mode. It is a 200 MB partition containing valuable partition data, thus it shan't be deleted. Just leave it as it is, as it is important for firmware and such.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EFI_System_partition

As you can see in this screenshot, I have that too:

 

[tock172]

That is normal behaviour and the disk identifier, which you just made visible via the Debug Mode. It is a 200 MB partition containing valuable partition data, thus it shan't be deleted. Just leave it as it is, as it is important for firmware and such.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EFI_System_partition

As you can see in this screenshot, I have that too:

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Thank you for the swift reply! I can relax and enjoy my Mac again