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is there any drawback to having too many partitions?
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Not really - sounds like you do need actual partitions since you're running different OSs. Typically you would use some other form of volume management (LVM, btrfs, zfs) for partitioning within a single OS. But for separate installs it's fine. gparted does a good job of letting you move things around and resize as needed. Just take care when shrinking partitions to shrink the filesystem first.
There used to be a time where there were obnoxious limits about the number and types of partitions you could have on disk (2 "physical partitions" and some number of "logical partitions" - I forget the details now). But if it works it works.