Sebastian Gurovich 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)
You could use lghome, lgroot, lgswap and lgtmp so i is easier to recall
what volume is for what usage.
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?
I am now a huge fan of individual partitions. I used to have a partition
for XP, /boot, /home and then / and swap within an lvm. I lost the lvm
and partitions within the extended partition 4 of my first hard disk.
Since there are only 4 primary partitions and the partition on the end
of the disk will most likely be an extended partition containing all of
your 5th and above partitions. All is gone anyway if you lost your
extended partition or had a failure because of disk geometry between
revisions.
I would go XP=partition1, /boot=partition2, /home=partition3 and put the
last partition as extended with regular partitions vs. LVM. But of
course you could do the lvm with seperate volumes all on the 4th
partition and that would allow you to resize as needs changed.
I hope this gives you some ideas as to the best concept to use.
Jim
