On Apr 26, 2013 3:09 PM, "Andrea Conti" <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > > > EXT3-fs (sda5): error: couldn't mount because of unsupported optional > features (240) > > > /dev/sda5 / ext4 noatime,discard 0 1 > > When first mounting the root filesystem the kernel has no access to > /etc/fstab and therefore by default tries mounting it with all available > FS drivers until one succeeds. ext3 (or ext4 in ext3 mode) is tried > before ext4 and you get that error when it fails because the filesystem > is using ext4-only features such as extents. > > You can avoid that by adding "rootfstype=ext4" to the kernel command line. >
Cool! I didn't know that before... For a long time I just ignore the error messages, although yes they are annoying ;-) Rgds, --
