Large recovery partitions
- by Unsigned
Is there any good reason as to why factory restore partitions are generally much larger than they need to be?
Examples I have found in my own experience:
Dell XPS laptop
Partition: 13.67 GB
Used: 6.68 GB
Dell Inspiron laptop
Partition: 14.7 GB
Used: 7.2 GB
Toshiba laptop
Partition: 15.3 GB
Used: 9 GB
In all cases, shrinking the partition to only slightly more than the Used space had no ill effects on future factory restorations.
Why the exorbitant amount of extra space, given that neither of the three computers ever writes any data to the recovery partition? Is there a good reason I'm overlooking?