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Question pretty sums it up - should I expect any problems having an external USB hard drive with 2 or more partitions and using one of those partitions as my Mac Time Machine backup (formatted HFS+ of course)

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I don't think there should be, except, of course, the drive space issue.

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The only problem I've seen is if you need to boot from it. I stored a bootable copy and the TM backups on the same external disk, which was fine until my internal HD went bang and I need to boot from the external hard drive. TM performance became painful and I had to turn it off.

Ideal to have an external HD for each purpose if you can afford it.

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mainly I was thinking of a a Time Machine backup and then a Fat32 system my window boxes could share w/ the Mac for general external storage – Matt Sep 2 '10 at 18:08
As long as TM can see a mac native partition, it should be fine. – alimack Sep 6 '10 at 14:23
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