Upgrading to OS X Lion - Effects on Boot Camp partition

I have a 2011 MacBook Pro running the latest version of Mac OS X Snow Leopard and I also have a Boot Camp partition with Windows 7 in it.
Will upgrading to OS X Lion using the Mac App Store affect my Boot Camp partition? Any recommendations on how I should do this?
Thank you.

External hard drives are the cheapest insurance you can
get for a computer.  Even if you don't update, there is always
a chance the hard drive or even the computer could die.
Any way, I installed Lion on two machines with Bootcamp
partitions and had no issues.  Both were Windows7 64 bit.
I think it just grabs the 650 meg it uses from the OSX
partition.

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