Reinstalling tiger 4.2 to partition

Have new G5 dual 2.3ghz. Need to partition for ps scratch disks and work volumes before installing software. Just wondering if there are any known problems that I might run in to when re installing Mac OSX 10.4.2 from CD? AND, on old OS9 it was easy with disk doctor (not available for tiger) to defrag and check partioned volumes. How do you do that in OSX tiger? Thanks

Welcome to Apple Discussions!
If the Mac was released after 10.4.3's release, you won't be able to install 10.4.2 on it.
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=25517
Defragmentation usually isn't necessary on Mac OS X, because of its own built-in defragmentation on most small files. Unless you are doing large file editing, you won't notice fragmentation affecting you. That's not to say you couldn't run into a directory issue, but typically fragmentation is not an issue. When dealing with large video files, having a scratch partition to write data to and periodically erase will give you space that is defragmented to write new big files to. Partitioning itself deletes the entire hard disk. There are third party utilities, which I haven't tested which don't require deleted the entire hard disk. The most important maintenance you can do to Mac OS X is backup your data:
http://www.macmaps.com/backup.html
All other maintenance is only there to supplement existing backups, and should not be used in lieu of backups.
Disclaimer: Reference to links I make to my Macmaps.com website are a for your information only type reference. I do not get any profit from this page, and it is open to the public.

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[ditto], release 6
[ditto], release 7
[ditto], release 8
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Cloning And Backup Tools
A bootable clone is an exact copy of your drive which is capable of booting your computer. Making a copy of your computer which is capable of actually starting the computer requires special copying procedures. Some people just back up data files but if you have problems you have to reinstall all your operating system and all your applications. With a bootable clone you just start up from the backup drive and clone back everything.
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[CarbonCopy Cloner|http://www.bombich.com/software/ccc.html] (donationware)
[SuperDuper|http://www.shirt-pocket.com/SuperDuper/SuperDuperDescription.html] (shareware)
[IBackup|http://www.grapefruit.ch/iBackup/index.html] (free)
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[Tri-Backup (commercial)|http://www.tri-edre.com/english/tribackup.html] (payware)
[Silverkeeper|http://www.lacie.com/silverkeeper> (free) - version 2 has some issues (references: [1|http://www.macintouch.com/readerreports/backup/index.html#d12jan2009],
[2|http://www.macintouch.com/readerreports/backup/index.html#d13jan2009]) and it is recommended Tiger users stick with 1.1.4.
[Kappy's Backup Software Recommendations|http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=9065665#906 5665]
[Overview of Mac OS X Backup Programs|http://8help.osu.edu/1247.html]

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