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From: Michael Hampicke <mh@××××.biz>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] can't mount ext4 fs as est3 or ext3
Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2013 15:39:07
Message-Id: 2e0d69bd9b54d50bfe559f7518b32860@hadt.biz
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] can't mount ext4 fs as est3 or ext3 by gottlieb@nyu.edu
1 Am 25.04.2013 16:26, schrieb gottlieb@×××.edu:
2 > I get the following in /var/log/messages
3 >
4 > EXT3-fs (sda5): error: couldn't mount because of unsupported optional
5 > features (240)
6 > ...
7 > EXT4-fs (sda5): couldn't mount as ext2 due to feature
8 > incompatibilities
9 > ...
10 > EXT4-fs (sda5): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Opts:
11 > (null)
12 >
13 > Here is the entry in fstab
14 >
15 > /dev/sda5 / ext4 noatime,discard 0 1
16 >
17 > I am having no difficulty, but seeing the first (error) message every
18 > day in logwatch is annoying.
19 >
20 > Since all my fs are ext4 I could remove ext3 support from the kernel
21 > (3.5.4). Is that the recommended procedure?
22
23 I'm not sure, but I don't think you can mount ext4 as ext2/3 with the
24 discard option (ssd trim) present. Only ext4 does support discard.