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No, not particularly small. I was just wondering about the advantages over have a single-partition drive. I don't have an OS 10.5 DVD, but I have my install disks for my Macbook Pro. I suppose I can use that as long as I'm using my MBP to do it, right? I can then upgrade to the latest version.

My large HD is partitioned with a bootable clone, as well as other partitions I use for various storage purposes. But what is the main purpose of the smaller bootable partition? What are the advantages? For repairing the other partition?

I bought a portable 500 GB Mercury On-the-go drive and want to use it to store photos and other images that are taking up a lot of my main laptop drive. I have no problem dragging the files over, but would also like to have a minimal system software setup or booting and checking the main drive...