MBP, too many pics, and new 1 TB external HD, advice on how to procede

Hi, new to the forum, and essentially apple. MBP running 10.4.11 and i have 2 new babies. lots of pictures movies etc. so i figured i'd put all the pics on an external HD to free up the internal.
so now i have a big (1 TB my book) and i'm thinking that i should probably partition it so as to make best use of the space. what should i use the partitions for though? backup (is that time machine? or is that only on leopard) photos obviously. anything else? a bootable partition?
thanks alot for the help, advice, and consideration

MMM.
For most effective use SuperDuper really needs a separate partition the same size as the internal drive too, OKC1234.
My own strategy in a situation like this (and I personally REALLY don't like having all the backups on the one drive, partitioned or otherwise, so I do much the same thing over several drives, but even partitions are safer than keeping it all on one volume!) would be to create a Time Machine partition twice the size of my internal drive (to allow for a fair amount of time before TM starts overwriting old files - lets face it - anyone using Tiger will almost certainly update to Leopard before long), a second SuperDuper partition equal in size to my internal drive, incrementally backed up automatically every day , to provide a "close to current" bootable backup, and whatever was left for a bit of extra free storage space for things I don't need on the internal HD all the time.
So I'd say three partitions minimum. I used to regularly partition my drives. For a while it became less necessary. Today, given Time Machine and Super Duper requirements, I think it makes good sense again.
Cheers
Rod
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