[ltp] Keep Predesktop but remove Recovery partition? Possible?

[Daniel]

I read a lot of sites about setting up Thinkpads with Linux, but I
wasn't totally sure about this - is the Recovery Partition (RP) totally
separate from the Predesktop Environment (PE)?  Or is the PE dependent upon
the RP in some way?  I would like to remove the RP since I will just
burn the recovery CD's (same thing, right???), shrink the XP partition, and keep the PE intact.  Can this be done?



Daniel