Description Of Issue:

Attempting to use the fsadm binary included with VxFS to resize an ext3 file system results in a licensing error as shown below:

# /opt/VRTS/bin/fsadm -b 200m /cs
UX:vxfs fsadm: ERROR: V-3-25255: fsadm: You don't have a license to run this program

Note that the file system size is not changed. This is due to the fsadm binary only supporting resizing or defragmentation of a VxFS file system.

Recommended Workaround:

To resize an ext3 filesystem which is held on a Volume Manager volume, the vxresize command should be used. This command will attempt to identify the type of file system held on the volume and call the appropriate command to resize that file system type. Note that the commands used are as follows:

VxFS: fsadm
ext3:ext2resize or resize2fs (depending on availability)

Note that in the case of an ext3 file system, the file system must be unmounted before the resize can be performed. This is a limitation of the ext3 file system and associated utilities and not Volume Manager. Please refer to the corresponding section in the Volume Manager Administrators guide for more information.

If the ext3file system is not held on a Volume Manager volume but is instead held on a raw disk slice or LVM logical volume please see operating system specific documentation.