Dividing hard drive on Mac mini

Can I  divide my hard drive up into 2 partitions? That would give me  2 160 gig on my hard drive. One to run and one for backup. 

If you backup onto another partition on the same drive you will lose both original and backup if the drive fails.
Get an external drive for backup (and if your files are precious also get another one to keep off-site).

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