[ltp] Partitioning new laptop

[James Knott]

Jeffrey L. Taylor wrote:
> Quoting Michael Ott <michael@zolnott.de>:
>>Hello Lior!
>>
>>>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.
>>Try an other application like qtparted
>>
>>>another question: are the recovery disks a perfect duplication of the
>>>predesktop area?
>>I do not think so but i do no know it exactly. I think it is packed.
>>
> 
> Much of its content is compressed.  I was just noticing the other day
> that Win2k fits on just over half of a CD (330MB, IIRC) while WinXP is
> 3GB compressed.  That's some feature creep!

They had to allow room for all the new bugs.  ;-)