You certainly can remove an unused partition, but reclaiming that
space by growing another partition is problematical. Possibly,
bootcamp could do this for you, but I tend to doubt it, since it's
primary function is to create such things, not remove them.
On the other hand, having another partition really doesn't hurt
anything, and often times, could come in handy. When you're using
the computer, the partitions are simply mounted on your finder just
as if it was a regular file system, (which in actuality it is) so if
you really don't need to reorganize things, then don't, simply rename
the partition to data or something, and use it for saving things you
don't want lost on your regular usage partitions, or (as I've done
here) rename it applications, then drop all your apps on it, freeing
up all that space otherwise used for the apps folder for other things.
If you hav another place to put the data that is on the partition
next to the one you want to remove (temporarily) you can copy all the
data off, delete both partitions, then create a single one that uses
all the disk space, then copy the data back, but honestly, that's
more work than it's worth, considering how simple it is to just use
the partition as is.
You could always sim-link the extra partition to somewhere under your
regular file system if it's really that big of an issue, that way
it's still separate, but it's also integrated with your main
filesystem, which kind of gives you the best of both worlds.
Using the fstab file (the file system table file) you could even
mount it somewhere else, though I'm sure apple frowns on this sort of
thing by normal users, but unix admins have been doing this sort of
thing for years, so no real reason not to do so if it will help you out.
Just a few ideas, use/ignore them as you see fit.
hth.
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