Best partitioning strategy for OS 8.6?

Hello,
I have two hard drives on my beige 233 MHz G3 minitower (rev 1):
4 GIG SCSI
80 GIG ATA
I need to install OS 8.6. I was considering using both drives but I do not know what I should put on each drive.
Should I install OS 8.6 onto the 4 GIG drive or the 80 GIG drive?
Option 1:
4 GIG: OS 8.6
80 GIG: applications
Option 2:
4 GIG drive: don't use it at all
80 GIG drive: OS 8.6 and the applications
Option 3 (using partitioning):
4 GIG drive: don't use it at all
80 GIG drive: First partition (15 GIGS): OS 8.6 and the applications. Second partition: (65 GIGs) for data.
Unfortunately 4 GIGs is too small for all my applications and so that is why I was thinking of not even using the 4 GIG drive and instead putting everything onto the 80 GIG drive. I have heard it is a good idea to keep the system and apps on the same volume - I am not sure if this is always true however.
Any thoughts?
Thanks!
The other issue is that I might have to further partition the 80 GIG drive into an additional partition for OSX in case I also need to install OSX because I read somewhere that on a beige G3, OSX must be installed in a partition that is no larger than 8 GIGs and it must be the first partition.
This scenario would look like this:
Option 4 (using more partitioning):
4 GIG: don't use it at all
80 GIG:
First partition (7.9 GIGS): OS X and OS X applications
Second partition (15 GIGS): OS 8.6 and the applications
Third partition: (57 GIGs) for data.
(I created a separate realted post under older hardware/beige G3/usage regarding how to boot between OS 8.6 and OS X in case anyone is interested.)

Thanks Don and Jim,
I carefully considered all your comments and here's what I plan to do:
It is important for me to indicate that, for this beige G3, I will use OSX primarily (OS 10.1.5) and therefore I would like its partition to be as large as possible. I read this will benefit OSX's swap file needs. However the OS must be within the 7.7 GIG limit for this particular mac (beige G3). I can therefore conclude that I should make the first partition exactly 7.7 GIGs and use it only for OSX.
Jim, you say that the 8 GIG limit for the startup volume applies to all OSes not just OSX and so that is a critical point for me. I will need to be certain about this. Are you sure OS 8.6 isn't bootable if it is in another partition beyond the first 8 GIGS on a beige G3? You see, I was thinking of installing OS 8.6 on a second partition of the 80 GIG drive like this:
partition 1 (7.7 GIGs): OSX
partition 2: (15 GIGs) : OS 8.6 and its applications
Based on your comment (the 8 GIG limit for the startup volume applies to all OSes) this will not work - the OS 8.6 partition will never boot because it is not within the first 8 GIGs. I had thought that rule only applied to OSX.
And if so, the best solution is to put OS 8.6 on the 4 GIG drive instead.
Here is my final solution:
4 GIG drive:
OS 8.6 (plus maybe photoshop)
80 GIG drive:
partition 1 (7.7 GIGs): OSX (10.1.5 is the version I have)
partition 2: (about 67 GIGs) : all the OSX applications, all the OS 8.6 applications and all my data
partition 3 (5 GIGS) : scratch disk just for running photoshop in OS 8.6 (I may or may not create this last partition - still thinking about it)
I might consider putting one or two of my OS 8.6 applications on the 4 GIG drive - the higher end applications such as photoshop which I think might fit on the 4 GIG drive with the OS 8.6.
As for the 5 GIG scratch partition on the 80 GIG drive, I am still considering if I need to do this or not because I would rarely use it - only for the few times I might run photoshop in OS 8.6. Maybe I should keep this partition anyways for something else just in case.
Other less important notes:
I might, one day, be able to use OS 9 instead of OS8.6 in these examples, in which case I will just substitute 9 for 8.6 in my examples noted above. Howwever for now I am reserving OS 9 for another computer I have. As for classic, I don't need classic support. I would rather just boot directly into 9. I have used classic before and I found it to be slow.
Thanks Jim and Don for your help.
If anyone sees anything wrong with this setup please let me know!

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