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From: Pandu Poluan <pandu@××××××.info>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] can't mount ext4 fs as est3 or ext3
Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2013 14:37:01
Message-Id: CAA2qdGXXJe0cSNEYgVLOVuBzwN+ksDOxtrNKg+oLKv6hjGQqcw@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] can't mount ext4 fs as est3 or ext3 by Andrea Conti
1 On Apr 26, 2013 3:09 PM, "Andrea Conti" <alyf@××××.net> wrote:
2 >
3 > Hi,
4 >
5 > > EXT3-fs (sda5): error: couldn't mount because of unsupported optional
6 > features (240)
7 >
8 > > /dev/sda5 / ext4 noatime,discard 0 1
9 >
10 > When first mounting the root filesystem the kernel has no access to
11 > /etc/fstab and therefore by default tries mounting it with all available
12 > FS drivers until one succeeds. ext3 (or ext4 in ext3 mode) is tried
13 > before ext4 and you get that error when it fails because the filesystem
14 > is using ext4-only features such as extents.
15 >
16 > You can avoid that by adding "rootfstype=ext4" to the kernel command line.
17 >
18
19 Cool! I didn't know that before...
20
21 For a long time I just ignore the error messages, although yes they are
22 annoying ;-)
23
24 Rgds,
25 --