How to move data files out of Users folder that is in a small partition?

The small partition (50 GB) also has the System, Applications, Developer and Library folders. I would like to move my Documents, Pictures, etc folders from this small partition to the 200 GB partition, preferably without losing too much performance. Does it work just to physically copy them to the other partition and then delete from the Users folder, or does that create problems? I have read somewhere that this may cause a lot of disk searching delays or other more serious problems. Before I reformat the whole HD to a single partition, is there a faster, less drastic solution? Thanks.

I presume I need to use "file-level" copying to the one-partition drive, but is there anything else to consider?
Yes, if you're talking about CCC, then file level is all you can do copying from the drive you'r booted from, but normally best anyway as the copied files will be unfragmented.
When failures occur, I presume they are due mainly to mechanical failures of the drive mechanism, but do "volume failures" occur very frequently?
Very astute! It's rarely possible to just lose one partition & not others, but if it is HW failure on the HD, then likely all will be lost.
or perhaps to a format that can be read by all platforms (other software needed for that?
Actually, your Intel Mac can boot from an APM partition, you just can't install to it or do Firmware updates from it, but it saved my behind when my only IntelMac died recently & I gad everthing 10.5.8 on an APM Firewire drive, I just plugged it into my eMac & had everything available.
Of course99.9% of PPC Macs can't boot OSX from USB, & cannot run/boot 10.6.x
A few options...
You could format that HDD as Fat32/MS-DOS, but you'd be limited to 4 GB Filesizes.
NTFS-3G Stable Read/Write Driver...
http://www.ntfs-3g.org/
MacFUSE: Full Read-Write NTFS for Mac OS X, Among Others...
http://www.osnews.com/story/16930
MacDrive for the PCs... allows them to Read/Write HFS+...
http://www.mediafour.com/products/macdrive/

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