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I've been able to resize in EC2 using this build of appliance-tools, so I think it is resolved. Pierre can you comment on this?
EC2 images these days are now partition images (#700594), so this bug is no longer relevant in EC2. And since we don't ship appliance-tools to customers, it's really just an internal issue now. The test I used to was to boot an image produced by appliance tools (such as one in a compose in /mnt/redhat/rel-eng/RHEL-6.1-RC-1.0/6.1/Appliance) with a larger volume than the partition table allocates for, and then repartition to take up the rest of the space via fdisk. After writing the partition table, reboot the VM. If it comes up without a problem, then I think the bug is fixed.
An advisory has been issued which should help the problem described in this bug report. This report is therefore being closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information on therefore solution and/or where to find the updated files, please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report if the solution does not work for you. http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHEA-2011-0540.html