I have a hard disk with a WinXP NTFS physical partition and wish to add Fedora 7 to have a dual boot system but am not sure what to do for partitioning. Thinking of 6 partitions in total. (1) NTFS for windows (2) "/boot" for boot loader (3) "/home" (4) "/" (5) swap (6) /tmp One option, AFAIK is to create at least 2 EXT3 partitions. One for the /boot and the other for the rest. Then 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? That is, 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) (1) \boot (2) logVol00 ("/home") (3) logVol01 ("/") (4) logVol02 (swap) (5) logVol03 ("/tmp") OR Should I FIRST create five PHYSICAL partitions with Partition Magic (both primary and extended) and then use LVM to end up with : (1) \boot (2) logVol00 (/home) (3) logVol01 (/) (4) logVol02 (swap) (5) logVol03 (/tmp) 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? Maybe I can´t create 5 physical partitions and Partition Magics extended partition scheme is like LVM´s logical partition scheme and so the end result is similar or am I missing something here?