SuperDuper - how do you partition a partially written external drive?

Just downloaded this program. I read it's best to partition the external drive otherwise it may overwrite existing data. My 150 GB external is 1/4 full. Can I partition it without distrubing the currently written data? How much space I need to assign to the partitioned section for backups?

I'm pretty sure you can't repartition without disturbing an existing partition, particularly if there's only one partition at the moment. If it's one quarter full, perhaps you can copy what's there back to the internal, repartition the external into the scheme you want, and then copy back to the external. But if you're only going to partition it to the same single partition you had before, there's no need to do it unless it was not formatted as the GUID type, which you need to boot an intel mac.
SuperDuper clones your drive, so it makes the external exactly like your internal and bootable too (assuming you do have the GUID type). So you can't have additional material on the drive to which you're cloning, as it wouldn't be a clone, right? What I do is use a 250 gig external, partitioned into two 125 gig partitions. One of them I use for SuperDuper to clone my internal, and the other I use for other backups of specific folders, offline storage of Aperture libraries, etc.
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