[Fedora-livecd-list] local hard disk space?

[Douglas McClendon]

Douglas McClendon wrote:
> Coco Computers & Consulting wrote:
>> When I boot with Centos 5.1 Live CD, a df command shows the root 
>> filesystem / is mounted to /dev/mapper/livecd-rw and shows a total of 
>> about 4GB with 50% available. 

...

   Long ago I
> submitted a patch such that the devicemapper device would have
> a size greater than 4GB, but the filesystem still be formatted to 4GB.
> With that kind of patch, such a user of a 16GB filesystem could
> resize2fs the filesystem larger post boot, and not be limited. 

...

And I'm also pretty sure that the same thing can be accomplished without 
any patch anyway...  (using a linear device mapper device that is the 
addition of the 4G sparse file, and a device mapper 'zero' device of 
arbitary length...)

I really love device mapper.

-dmc