Should OS be in its own partition on a 40G drive?

After fighting with constant kernel panics in strange places (i.e., quitting Safari, booting Finder) I've decided to do an erase and install from the original panther disc and do the upgrades back 10.4.11 to see if that solves the problems.
I've never partitioned my HD, but I'm wondering if there is a reason to put the system in its own partition. If so, how much of the 40G do I dedicate to it?
I am the only user, so I want everything at the shared level and only my music and work files on my user space.

As Malcolm says, don't partition. You have a relatively small drive and partitioning will cramp OSX which needs a lot of free disk space to run optimally. The only reason I can see to put OSX on its own partition is if you want to have multiple copies on a computer. The other reason to partition is for convenience in making backups but that's going beyond your immediate question.

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