Have the following purposed partion schema ----not worried much about the *nix systems booting - however need to be able to have a native boot Win 7 for some teaching / consulting I'll be doing and not terribly familiar with lvm just yet (much better at VM and MBR using an extended partition)
currently via gdisk
Disk /dev/sda: 488397168 sectors, 232.9 GiB
Logical sector size: 512 bytes
Disk identifier (GUID): E26BE449-8A6A-4417-AE21-0AFCAA481CAB
Partition table holds up to 128 entries
First usable sector is 34, last usable sector is 488397134
Partitions will be aligned on 2048-sector boundaries
Total free space is 2349 sectors (1.1 MiB)
Number Start (sector) End (sector) Size Code Name
1 2048 1026047 500.0 MiB 8300
2 1026048 403458047 191.9 GiB 8E00
3 403458048 488396799 40.5 GiB 8E00
attempting to go to -> (have only 2Gb on MOBO and NON-UEFI aware Dell D620 BIOS A10
/dev/sda
sda1 --200M,-Boot,/EFI,FAT32 (hybrid MBR?)
sda2 --256M,-Boot,/boot,EXT2,Petra
sda3 --256M,-Boot,/boot,EXT2,Heisenberg
sda4 --256M,-Boot,/boot,EXT2,Arch
sda5 --256M,-Boot,/boot,EXT2,Win7
sda6 --191G,LVM,EXT4
VG-(main system)
LV -10G -Petra VG-main
LV -10G -Heisenberg VG-main
LV -10G -Arch VG-main
LV -40G -Win7 VG-main
LV -30G -usr VG-main
LV -91G -home VG-main
sda7, 40G,LVM,EXT4)
VG-(Oracle VM
LV -10G -VirtualBox Oracle
LV -30G -Virtual-home Oracle
sda8, 15G,LVM,Swap
LV -15G -n Swap VG-main
remarks on any other issues / better schemes I may not see or foresee would be appreciated