RHBA-2011:0076 - Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

Updated e4fsprogs packages that fix a bug and add an enhancement are now
available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.

Description

The e4fsprogs packages contain a number of utilities for creating, checking,
modifying, and correcting inconsistencies in fourth extended (ext4 and ext4dev)
file systems. e4fsprogs contains e4fsck (used to repair file system
inconsistencies after an unclean shutdown), mke4fs (used to initialize a
partition to contain an empty ext4 file system), tune4fs (used to modify file
system parameters), and most other core ext4fs file system utilities.

This update fixes the following bug:

• To ensure the file system was recently checked, users were required to use the

fsck utility before running the "resize4fs -P" (minimum size query) command,
even though this is not actually necessary. With this update, the underlying
source code has been modified to target this issue, and running fsck before
querying the minimum size of the file system is no longer required. (BZ#643945)

As well, this update adds the following enhancement:

• The e4fsprogs package has been updated to the upstream version 1.41.12.

(BZ#604809)

All e4fsprogs users are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which
resolve this issue, and add this enhancement.

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure that all previously-released errata
relevant to your system have been applied.

This update is available via Red Hat Network. Details on how to use the Red
Hat Network to apply this update are available at
https://access.redhat.com/kb/docs/DOC-11259

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 ia64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 5 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 5 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 5 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 5 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 5 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 5 ppc
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 5 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 5 i386

Fixes

• BZ - 604809 - e4fsprogs: Update to 1.41.12
• BZ - 643945 - resize2fs: relax -P (query minimum size) requirements

CVEs

(none)

References

(none)