[ltp] recovery partition

[Carlos Maldonado]

Alejandro Bonilla wrote:
>>On Thu, Jul 21, 2005 at 16:47:26 +0300, dim wrote:
>>
>>>Hi,
>>>what is the exact purpose of ibm's recovery partition? Does it only
>>>store recovery information or are applications (ibm's fingerprint
>>>software and etc) also stored on and run from it? What I'm
>>
>>asking is if
>>
>>AFAIK it's only for recovery purposes.
> 
> 
> It is only a stupid disk Image. That is all.
> 
> 
>>>I remove the partition, will all ibm's applications
>>
>>function properly?
>>
>>>If not, is there a way to install linux on a thinkpad (t43) without
>>>breaking the recovery partition?
>>
>>I would call IBM so ask for recovery CDs (tell them that you have
>>problems with the recovery procedure) so you don't have to waste
>>space on your hard disk.
> 
> 
> If you removed the partition, then you have now like 4-6GB more, ain't that
> great?
>

I did so and now I have a /usr/local which is very handy

CM

> 
> What the partition does, it only stores and image of the OS with windows and
> apps and that you can press the IBM blue button and then fix everything that
> way.
> 
> If you don't care about Windows or you make your own windows stuff, then
> don't even bother in looking deeper.
> 
>  .Alejandro
>