[ltp] Partitioning new laptop

[James Knott]

Lior David wrote:
> i tried to use partition magic to resize the "ibm_preload" partition
> and to make a new one after it (and before the predesktop area) but it
> messed up my hd and i had to recover it to the factory settings.
> 
> another question: are the recovery disks a perfect duplication of the
> predesktop area?

I don't know about the exact content, but I don't see why they'd be
different.

Also, my understanding is that you don't do anything to that partition,
other than delete it, if you need the space.