Disk Utility - Formatting a partition without erasing the whole drive?

[utradar]

I've been backing up my Powerbook G4 for a few months using Time Machine to an external firewire drive with two partitions; one for the backups, and a much larger one for all my music, video, pictures, etc. I got a new mac mini over the weekend and I want to format the Time Machine partition without erasing the one with all my other files so I can start backing up the Mini.

Is this possible using Disk Utility? If so, how?

Both computers are running Leopard.

Thanks!

 

[BlueRevolution]

1) Open Disk Utility.
2) Click the partition.
3) Click the Erase tab.
4) Click the Erase button.