On Thu, Apr 25 2013, Yuri K. Shatroff wrote: > On 25.04.2013 18:26, [email protected] wrote: >> I get the following in /var/log/messages >> >> EXT3-fs (sda5): error: couldn't mount because of unsupported >> optional features (240) >> ... >> EXT4-fs (sda5): couldn't mount as ext2 due to feature incompatibilities >> ... >> EXT4-fs (sda5): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Opts: (null) >> >> Here is the entry in fstab >> >> /dev/sda5 / ext4 noatime,discard 0 1 >> >> I am having no difficulty, but seeing the first (error) message every >> day in logwatch is annoying. >> >> Since all my fs are ext4 I could remove ext3 support from the kernel >> (3.5.4). Is that the recommended procedure? > > Yes, it is. Moreover, it is due to the ext3 legacy code that you are > getting the EXT3 error (the first one) in /var/log/messages. > Even if you remove ext3 legacy support from kernel, the ext2 and ext3 > filesystems will be handled by the "new" ext4 code. > As for the EXT4-fs message, probably it tries to mount the fs as ext2 > first but it is not quite consistent for different fs, I'm getting it > on some but not getting on others.
Thank you. allan
