[ltp] Ok to remove Recovery Partition?

[Michael Z Daryabeygi]

I admit, I have a T41, and I have not removed my partition, but my 
co-worker did remove hers.  She certainly did not get back 5g.
And that + 4 gig that you are counting on 7 CD's -- it includes a copy 
in compressed form right?  And is not expecting more than 50% 
compression reasonable?
I find 5g actually recovered hard to believe.  But if you say so.
Also, when I requested the recovery CD's from IBM, there were only 5, not 7.

SOTL, do report back on how much space you recover.

Alexandru D. Salcianu wrote:
> I have a T42 and the recovery partition took more than 5G (although it
> is true, it used to be smaller on previous ThinkPad models).  I was
> glad to delete the recovery partition and use the space to increase
> the Linux partition!  Definitely bigger than 2G (just think about it:
> the data from the partition is used to generate 7CD x >600M, i.e., more
> than 4G).
> 
> Best,
> 
> Alex
> 
> 
>>From: Michael Z Daryabeygi <mzd@sligowebworks.com>
>>
>>SOTL wrote:
>>
>>>On Thursday 10 March 2005 13:47, Bret Comstock Waldow wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>Hi,
>>>>
>>>>I have a T42, with Windows XP.  I've finished the XP startup, and I used
>>>>the option to make 7 CDs to recover from, and actually used them to
>>>>re-install XP.
>>
>>[...]
>>
>>I tried to find out how big the partition is.
>>no specific success, but enough to confirm my recollection that it is 
>>less than 2G.
>>
>>
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