Please re-edit all your posts to make command outputs be between the codeblocks as mentioned in above link.
What exactly do you want “cleared up” in what way
As far as i could understand from the conversation so far is that your real request is about improving slow booting and not with the partitioning, so i’m changing the topic title to reflect that (to prevent other readers in future from being misguided)…
Note: That the timings you posted are not slow at all for any version of Linux…
This time jump (+ ~4s) is related to your network speed because it tries to check for updates, which is not slow at all either