garbage partitions of the system on hdd

[zeran2]

Hello forum members. Sorry, I'm just learning English and use a translator.
I became the owner of f2-423 tos5 and I have several questions for the developers.
1) I have 1 nvme disk and 1 hdd in my configuration. When initializing, I select nvme for the system (raid is a single disk). After rebooting, I put an ext4 partition on the entire hdd space (raid is a single disk). But along with the partition, the operating system partitions also appear. Why? I don't want to use a slow disk for the operating system, but tos5 does it itself.
2) I left the f2-423 on for a week. It is connected only to a home router, there are no programs on it, no tasks. But several times a day the hdd starts working hard for 10 minutes. What scheduled tasks in TOS5 reduce the resource of my disk? Are there any backdoors among them?
3) I can format the entire hdd to ext4 via terminal, but the system does not see the partition. How can I delete junk partitions and get the full disk space for myself?

[Gremlin]

That is how Tos5 works. The partitions are not 'junk' they are active raid1 mirrors of the os and swap partitions. Tos 6 will be slightly different and you can choose up to two drives for the os partitions

[TMzethar]

You can open a terminal and run the following command to see a count of processes reading or writing to the disk every 100 seconds (subject to change).

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pidstat -d 100 

For more information about problems that may interfere with HDD hibernation, you can refer to this：
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[zeran2]

That is how Tos5 works. The partitions are not 'junk' they are active raid1 mirrors of the os and swap partitions. Tos 6 will be slightly different and you can choose up to two drives for the os partitions

in tos6, will I protect the hdd from the system partition? This is great news.