[Urbansory]

Yea you will need to reformat, can't get around that. It is easy and takes virtually no time to setup. As simple as selecting the number of partitions and setting their sizes.

I believe it is worth it for the reasons i noted. As far as the swap files, I don't worry about those, because my system partition has more than enough room. i use the scratch bin for scratch disc space # 1, then my others as 2nd and 3rd discs for scratch.

I have a lot of memory, something i was told at my first professional job, you can never have enough memory, and that still holds true to this day. So i rarely swap out, unless i have a lot of Apps open that are using up a lot of my resources.

Long story short, I would make that system partition a bit larger, just in case you need that extra space, basically breathing room for the system to write data freely as needed in a wide space, than a small space where it needs to jump all over to save this data.