Sjoerd Mullender wrote: > On 04/20/2007 07:33 PM, Anthony J Placilla wrote: >> Sjoerd Mullender wrote: >>> Does anybody know what this means: >>> EXT3-fs: hdc1: couldn't mount because of unsupported optional features >>> (4000400). >>> >>> I googled but only found questions. >>> >>> I can read the disk (both fdisk and dd are happy enough), but I don't >>> want to overwrite anything if I don't have to. >>> >>> # uname -r >>> 2.6.20-1.2944.fc6 >>> >> Well the first question that comes to mind is what type of media is it? >> >> Detailed info please >> > > Oops. Harddisk. The system is a Dell Inspiron 8200 laptop with two > internal drives. The second drive (hdc) is the original one and so used > to work fine. There is a single partition with a file system that until > recently (I don't know when I actually tried last) worked well. > have you run fsck at the disk? what does fdisk -l /dev/hdc say? what does e2label /dev/hdc1 say? and how is it being mounted? from fstab? What are the relevant lines? -- Tony Placilla, RHCT, GSEC anthony_placilla@xxxxxxxx GPG-Key-ID: 1024D/C78F8B64 http://pgp.mit.edu Key fingerprint = A8D5 7AFF CE88 4179 C792 D9A9 F197 2A15 C78F 8B64