lvresize fails attempting to call fsadm with --resizefs parameter

[R. Denison]

Binary package hint: lvm2

System information:

uname -a
Linux tardbook 2.6.22-14-generic #1 SMP Sun Oct 14 23:05:12 GMT 2007 i686 GNU/Linux

(Ubuntu Gutsy with all updates.)

Package version:

dpkg -l | grep lvm
ii lvm2 2.02.26-1ubuntu4 The Linux Logical Volume Manager

To reproduce the error:

lvresize --verbose --resizefs --size +1036 /dev/usb_vg/testvol1
    Finding volume group usb_vg
    Executing: fsadm check /dev/usb_vg/testvol1 (null)
  fsadm: execlp failed: No such file or directory
  fsadm failed: 2

Workaround:

Remove the --resizefs parameter and as a second step use resize2fs or ext2prepare and ext2fsresize to modify the file system.

[Alasdair G. Kergon (agk2)]

On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 10:46:22PM -0000, R. Denison wrote:
> lvresize --verbose --resizefs --size +1036 /dev/usb_vg/testvol1

It's a long story, but --resizefs is still not yet supported upstream.

The good news is that someone sent me a reasonable-looking patch today
and there's a good chance this will be available upstream in the next
week or so.

Alasdair
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[Tudor Holton (tudor)]

Any news on this bug? I notice that I'm still getting the error massage listed here, and this is the first bug to turn up in google for ubuntu lvm lvresize 'execlp failed'.

[Aaron Kurtz (a.kurtz)]

As the man said, still a problem with 2.02.39-0ubuntu9

[Steve Scaffidi (sscaffidi)]

This bug is still a problem in Jaunty:

# lvextend --size +20G --resizefs --verbose /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-home_tmp
    Finding volume group VolGroup00
    Executing: fsadm check /dev/VolGroup00/home_tmp (null)
  fsadm: execlp failed: No such file or directory
  fsadm failed: 2

# uname -a
Linux chimpanzee 2.6.28-11-generic #42-Ubuntu SMP Fri Apr 17 01:58:03 UTC 2009 x86_64 GNU/Linux

# aptitude show -v lvm2
Package: lvm2
State: installed
Automatically installed: no
Version: 2.02.39-0ubuntu9
<snip>

IMO, the --resizefs option ought to be removed, or a more descriptive error message should be shown until this is fixed. I understand why it is this way, but an option that SHOWS UP in the --help output but DOES NOT WORK is a bug.

[Steve Scaffidi (sscaffidi)]

One more thing I want to add:

This is not a new issue - it has evidently re-occurred several times throughout the years:

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=496020
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=291911
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=175820

[Alasdair G. Kergon (agk2)]

We did actually get --resizefs and fsadm working upstream (most of the time).

[halil sen (halilsen)]

It looks like this issue is fixed on Ubuntu 20.04 but a similar issue persists if `lvresize --resizefs` is called within a init-premount script (even though lvresize and fsadm copied via coy_exec).

```
/sbin/fsadm: execvp failed: No such file or directory
Filesystem check failed.

exit code 5.

```