Fedora 7 install: DISK failure consideration

[Kam Leo]

On 6/2/07, Sebastian Gurovich <sebas0 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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?

You can have only 4 primary partitions. One and only one of the four
primary partitions can be an extended partition.