RHEL8.0: xfs_growfs and xfs_info no longer support a device path but require a mount point

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • Change in behaviour of xfs_growfs and xfs_info
  • These XFS utilities previously supported device names of block devices that could be found in the mount table
  • Changes in 8.0 and 8.1 now are in line with the intended function
  • As a result, the Ansible filesystem module resizing of XFS fails when presented with the device name as it requests
  • The -n option of xfs_growfs no longer works with the device name

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.0 and 8.1.
  • xfs

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