I should point out that the resize2fs in precise does the same thing
even if you don't specify the size:

For example do

$ cp tiny xxl
$ dd if=/dev/zero of=xxl bs=1 count=0 seek=1310720M
$ resize2fs xxl

When I looked at the code I couldn't see an explicit check in there.

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  resize2fs allows resize beyond maximum fs size - corrupts fs

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