Iphot and Photos libraries taking all my disc space

I have installed Photos but now seem to have 2 photo libraries on my Laptop - iPhoto and photos. Seeing as I have a small SSD and a large collection of pictures can I safely delete one library to recover some disc space?

If you migrated the iPhoto Library to Photos, then it should not be using any more space than before, even though it may appear to be. Look at your disk space used and compare it to what you had before. As long as you don't do anything to break the links between the 2 libraries, then they shouldn't take up extra space.
Photos saves disk space by sharing images with your iPhoto or Aperture libraries - Apple Support

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