[ltp] Ok to remove Recovery Partition?

[Alexandru D. Salcianu]

Hello,

There is an even simpler way of finding the size of the recovery
partition, even before deleting it: one of the Windows utilities
installed by IBM allows you to chose where to save some sort of
backups.  The graphic interface for making this choice also shows you
the size of the recovery partition.  I don't know the exact name of
the application, as I almost never boot into Windows.

Anyway, regardless of the size of this partition on older models, the
partition is very large on recent T42, and it's definitely worth
deleting!

Good luck!

Alex

> > I admit, I have a T41, and I have not removed my partition, but my 
> > co-worker did remove hers.  She certainly did not get back 5g.
> > And that + 4 gig that you are counting on 7 CD's -- it includes a copy 
> > in compressed form right?  And is not expecting more than 50% 
> > compression reasonable?
> > I find 5g actually recovered hard to believe.  But if you say so.
> > Also, when I requested the recovery CD's from IBM, there were only 5, not 7.
> > 
> > SOTL, do report back on how much space you recover.
> 
> Well, I thought that you could find out how big it is by simple math on the
> output of "fdisk -l", but I just checked and that's not correct.  So, get
> the drive's model number with "hdparm -i /dev/hda" (ICN25N030ATMR040-0 in my
> case), do a web search for e.g "icn25n030atmr04-0 specs", from that get its
> true capacity (30*10^9 B in my case), convert that to
> everywhere-else-in-computers gigabytes (27.9 GiB), and subtract what fdisk
> says is its capacity from that (27.9 - 26881188864/2^30 = 2.9 GiB).  So my
> (T40) pre-desktop area is 2.9 GiB, or around 6.6% of the drive.
> 
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