Dual-boot question

[Bhaskar _]

Hi,

I have Windows XP and FC5 installed on my machine, and use GRUB to boot. 
GRUB configuration file sits on /boot/grub as recommended by the book I used 
for installation. I now want to format my C drive where my Windows OS sits 
and clean install XP. Could you please tell me about things I should watch 
out for so that I don't screw up my Linux partition? Would a default install 
suffice or should I make sure some options are set differently when I 
install Windows?

Just trying to be careful. Thanks for your help.

-Bhaskar
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My 'fdisk -l' output looks like this:

Disk /dev/sda: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *           1        2550    20482843+   c  W95 FAT32 (LBA)
/dev/sda2            2551       19456   135797445    f  W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sda5            2551        5100    20482843+   e  W95 FAT16 (LBA)
/dev/sda6            5101        5113      104391   83  Linux
/dev/sda7            5114        8937    30716248+  83  Linux
/dev/sda8            8938        9574     5116671   83  Linux
/dev/sda9            9575       10211     5116671   83  Linux
/dev/sda10          10212       19456    74260431   8e  Linux LVM

Disk /dev/dm-0: 74.9 GB, 74994155520 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9117 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Disk /dev/dm-0 doesn't contain a valid partition table

Disk /dev/dm-1: 1006 MB, 1006632960 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 122 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Disk /dev/dm-1 doesn't contain a valid partition table

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