Symptoms
On systems where ID1004833 has been fixed, the resizing instructions for /appdata from K74200262 no longer work.
Impact
A filesystem resize operation may fail with the following error:
# lvreduce --resizefs --size -40G /dev/mapper/vg--db--sda-dat.appdata
Do you want to unmount "/appdata"? [Y|n] y
fsck from util-linux 2.23.2
/dev/mapper/vg--db--sda-dat.appdata is in use.
e2fsck: Cannot continue, aborting.
resize2fs 1.42.9 (28-Dec-2013)
resize2fs: Device or resource busy while trying to open /dev/mapper/vg--db--sda-dat.appdata
Couldn't find valid filesystem superblock.
fsadm: Resize ext3 failed
fsadm failed: 1
Filesystem resize failed.
Conditions
When the jitterentropy-rngd is started by systemd which is the default state of the BIG-IP.
Workaround
Unmount /appdata and restart the jitterentropy-rngd, using the following commands:
umount /appdata
systemctl restart jitterentropy-rngd
Then retry the resize operation.