I've got a G4/400/TiBook with a single 10 Gb hard drive. 

When I set it up last year, I put OS 9 on a 2.5 Gb partition for
emergency use only, and the rest is used for OS X which is what I use
daily. In the past year,
I've booted into OS 9 once, and I doubt I ever will need to again. I'd
like to reclaim the disc space wasted on that partition, without
affecting my current OS X (10.2) install.

Ideally, I'd like to simply wipe out the other partition and grow the
primary partition to use the entire 10 Gb drive. Is that possible on
OS X without losing data on both partitions (I don't care if I lose
data on the smaller one). I can't locate any partition managers that
can do this, but I hope it's still possible.

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Clarification of Question by mathowie-ga on 25 Aug 2002 16:38 PDT

Just to be clear here, I no longer need a full bootable install of OS
9, and would rather have more disk space available to my primary OS.

I do not believe there are any partition managers for OS X yet. 
Partition Magic is the only one I know of for Windows that will 'grow'
a partition in size.  Generally, there are two options:

1) Backup, format, repartition and re-install, or
2) format the OS 9 partition and mount it as a separate disc.  With
the UNIX file system, that can be nearly transparant - just mount it
as, say, /home/mp3z or /data/mp3z for all of your MP3 files.  Should
be invisible to the finder.

Of course, I could be wrong - that's how it works in UNIX, but I'm not
an OS X expert yet.

wengland is correct. There is no possible way to do this at this time.
Using a unix link command may give you a temporary fix, but rebuilding
Mac OS X from scratch is the way I would go - it's too darn easy these
days. If you have an external drive big enough to back up your laptop,
it should go rather quickly. I've rebuilt my laptop in well under 2
hours, including OS re-install, MySQL db instal. It's really quite
simple with OS X. All you really need worry about is your users
folder, and your applications folder.