I'm under the impression that open G is perhaps the most common blues slide tuning, but even if that detail is off, there's a lot of material out there that uses or can be adapted to open G.
I've played some other slide tunings, but mostly I'm in open G.
There's a lot of slide technique that isn't based on covering all the strings. In fact about a year or so ago after watching some Fred MacDowell videos linked here on the AGF, I bought a stubby slide so I could mess-around a bit with concentrating on only the two highest pitched strings.
As Ray points up upthread, some Keith Richards uses open G for a great deal of his playing (not just slide) and just leaves off the lowest (6th) string.
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