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Message: <blockquote data-quote="bobtomay" data-source="post: 838354" data-attributes="member: 24160">imho:There is not really a good reason to bring the Linux behavior of those 3 partitions into OS X.  Personally, would suggest a reinstall with a single partition.  If you want a scratch disk, it should be a separate drive, not a separate partition on your boot disk.You are not going to be needing to re-install OS X the way a lot of folks in the Linux realm re-install their OS.  This really is the primary reason to have a separate partition for your data.  After all, if your drive fails, you have still lost everything, no matter how many partitions you have set up.I believe it would be to your advantage to move back to a single partition, invest in an external drive and maybe set it up with a couple of partitions, one for backup and one for your scratch disk.</blockquote>