I have a hard disk with a WinXP NTFS physical partition and wish to add Fedora 7 to have a dual boot system<br>but am not sure what to do for partitioning.<br>Thinking of 6 partitions in total.<br><br>(1) NTFS for windows<br>
(2) "/boot" for boot loader<br>(3) "/home"<br>(4) "/"<br>(5) swap<br>(6) /tmp<br><br>One option, AFAIK is to create at least 2 EXT3 partitions. One for the /boot and the other for the rest. Then
<br>using LVM I could create logical partitions (volumes) for "/home", "/" and "/tmp", BUT, I know the disk will have problems in the future due to age, wear and accidental bumps etc. I am going to take backups but the question is: am I better off first to create many different physical partitions for the F7 installation or should I just create two physical partitions and use LVM to create many logical volumes out of the one physical volume?
<br><br>That is,<br><br>Should I create 2 physical partitions with Partition Magic, for (1) and for (2),(3),(4),(5) and then use LVM for (2),(3),(4),(5)<br><br>(1) \boot<br>(2) logVol00 ("/home")<br>(3) logVol01 ("/")
<br>(4) logVol02 (swap)<br>(5) logVol03 ("/tmp")<br><br>OR <br><br>Should I FIRST create five PHYSICAL partitions with Partition Magic (both primary and extended) and then use LVM to end up with : <br><br>(1) \boot
<br>(2) logVol00 (/home)<br>(3) logVol01 (/)<br>(4) logVol02 (swap)<br>(5) logVol03 (/tmp)<br><br>If i go with the 2nd option and leave extra free space in logVol00,logVol01 and logVol03 can I later take space from "/home ", /"tmp" or swap and redistribute it to "/" and vice-versa using LVM?
<br><br>Maybe I canīt create 5 physical partitions and Partition Magics extended partition scheme is like LVMīs logical partition scheme and so the end result is similar or am I missing something here? <br><br>