Growing XFS filesystem with xfs_growfs fails with "XFS_IOC_FSGROWFSDATA xfsctl failed: Invalid argument" on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

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Issue

  • Getting the following error while trying to grow the xfs partition
    # xfs_growfs /mnt/xfs-share
meta-data=/dev/loop0             isize=256    agcount=52,
agsize=76288719 blks
         =                       sectsz=512   attr=2
data     =                       bsize=4096   blocks=3905982455, imaxpct=5
         =                       sunit=0      swidth=0 blks
naming   =version 2              bsize=4096   ascii-ci=0
log      =internal               bsize=4096   blocks=32768, version=2
         =                       sectsz=512   sunit=0 blks, lazy-count=0
realtime =none                   extsz=4096   blocks=0, rtextents=0
xfs_growfs: XFS_IOC_FSGROWFSDATA xfsctl failed: Invalid argument

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5.6
  • Red Hat Scalable filesystem (XFS)
    • Attempting to grow an XFS filesystem with xfs_growfs command.

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