Creating a Boot drive and a data drives

I have just installed a new 750 GB hard drive into a PowerMac G5, it had a 160 GB drive already, and I left that in there. I would like to use the older smaller drive as the boot drive, and the newer bigger one as the user data drive.
How do I go about doing it to minimize problems? I can clone the older drive onto the newer one, using disk utility. Once I do that, then what? Please give me some detailed steps.
Where do I divide things up, put system and applications on the boot drive, and users on the data drive? What about Library? What about things like etc, tmp, and var? Will I have problems cloning users? Please help

You do not need to clone to the new drive, unless you want to be able to startup from it.
Just use Disk Utility. Select the new drive in the Disk Utility sidebar. If you just want one partition on the drive, you can use the Erase tab to format it. Select Mac OS Extended (Journaled) as the format type. If you want to partition it and format it, use the Partition tab. One possibility is to create two partition, with one partition being about the size of the 160GB startup drive. You can then periodically clone your regular startup drive to that smaller partition to have a bootable backup (very useful for trouble-shooting). The second partition can be the rest of the space. How you partition the drive is up to you...
You should keep your system and library files on the startup drive. You should generally keep your application files on your startup drive, in the Application folder. You may also want to keep all of default first level folders in your Home (user) folder on the startup drive. These are the folders like Documents, Music, Movies, etc. that are created during the OS installation.
Inside these user folders, I have moved my large folders (such as +iTunes Music+ at <home>/Music/iTunes/) to my second drive. Then I create an alias named exactly like the moved folder, and put it back in the original location. When iTunes is started, it should act like the folder was still on startup drive in the default location. Alternately, you can move the folder and tell iTunes where the new location is in its preferences, but I like using the default settings when possible.
You should be able to take similar actions to put your iPhoto library folder and others on your second drive. If you have sub-folders in your documents folder, you can also alias them to folders on your second drive. Essentially, most of your user-created data can be on the second drive, but it will look like a default setup in Finder and to the system.
There are more technical things you can do, such as move your entire user folder to the second drive. You can look at those possibilities as well...

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