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

[linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org]

> 
> > 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?
> 
> Get rid of all that crap! it takes space from you and Linux. :)
> 
> I think that when you disable that PE it will free like 3gb in the beg of
> your HD.


I'm inclining to do that.  It appears that the PE doesn't actually do
much.