Fedora and LVM

Even if you are running on bare hardware, the trend is strongly towards either using network storage, or just reimaging the system if you have something as major as partitioning wrong.

on desktop/laptop systems, there aren't a lot of reasons for doing anything other than 'one big partition' (although I modify this to two small partitions for / and everything else for /var, with /home being a link into /var to make major OS changes easier)

Yes, you can make lots of small partitions and leave space unallocated to add later, but the odds of that being better than just using the entire disk as one partition are pretty low (especially for the average user)