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List:       linux-thinkpad
Subject:    Re: [ltp] Partitioning new laptop
From:       James Knott <james.knott () rogers ! com>
Date:       2005-06-28 15:38:09
Message-ID: 42C16EE1.204 () rogers ! com
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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.  ;-)


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