Bug#887255: lvm2 should depend on e2fsprogs explicitly

Alasdair G Kergon agk at redhat.com
Sun Jan 21 09:40:09 UTC 2018


On Sun, Jan 21, 2018 at 10:09:14AM +0100, Andreas Henriksson wrote:
> The fsadm(.sh) script does indeed invoke both tune2fs and resize2fs
> under certain circumstances, so from a laymans view there should
> definitely be a dependency added.
 
That's backwards.

*If* you are using ext (for example) with lvm, then fsadm will help you
to use it through those tools.  You don't choose to install tools for a
filesystem you aren't using just because you put lvm on the system!

Alasdair



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