doozy, you got folders before, but the very first OS forced you to have unique filenames on the whole disk. The old system (MFS) was fully supported up to OS 6, partially in OS 7 and finally axed in OS 8... Illo, the 1 gig partitions are fine, but the 15 gig one wastes blocks again (If I counted it right, one block would be 240k, which is much too much...) I would rather recommend to split the whole thing into 4-5 gig partitions each. However, if you can (legally) get OS 8.5, then GET IT. It will be soon the minimum OS anyway (Apple has just recently dumped the Carbon support for 8.1 - the recent Carbon library requires OS 8.5/6. This means that a lot of new software for OS X will no longer run under 8.1. As with 8.0 -> 8.1 there is a free 8.5 -> 8.6 update, and 8.6 is about as stable as 8.1. If you plan to use it, get it quick and re-format the disk again (before you become too comfortable with your current setup...). If you want to use virtual memory, a scratch partition is a good idea. With "HFS+" it is fine to format the remaining 19 gig as one partition.