Will Time Capsule work if I partition my new Seagate Plus 1 TB drive?

I have a Macbook with OS 10.6.8, and I just purchased a new Seagate Plus 1 TB drive. My macbook's 120GB memory is nearly full, so I would like to partition the new hard drive into 2 sections--one for Time Capsule and one to offload oodles of pictures, video clips, songs, etc. I began reading discussion forums to get directions and have read some people saying that partitioned drives support Time Capsule fine, and others saying that on a partitioned drive Time Capsule will not reboot from a crashed hard drive. Is this true? (I hope not!) Can someone offer me the truth on this topic, as well as accutate instructions about how to partition? Thank you very much!

If you purchased a standalone external drive, you're using Time Machine, not a Time Capsule, and can partition the drive normally.
All the copies of a file you want to keep shouldn't be on a single drive, as it can fail at any time.
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