2 Macs to one partiton?

Can I use Time Machine to backup 2 MacBooks to the one (and same) HFS+ partition mounted on USB drive? Given that it would be big enough, would it work? Or it would somehow fantastically mess up both backups when I will need them...?

this is exactly what I want to do. I have a 750G drive hooked up via firewire to my iMac. I'm getting a macbook for Christmas.
So I can get the macbook to use the drive over the network? Someone told me I would HAVE to repartition the drive and loose my current time machine data.

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