On 15-May-2000 R. Ransbottom wrote: > > I normally use ext2 filesystems on floppies. > > After creating a filesystem with mke2fs from e2fsprogs 1.18-3 > the program mount from e2fsprogs 1.12-4 fails to mount it > with the message: > > EXT2-FS: 02:00: couldn't mount because of unsupported optional features. > > Fsck from 1.12-4 would find no fault with the filesystem. >
new ext2 does not work w/ 2.0 kernels unless you pass it an option during creation of the filesystem, some new things were added. Read the ext2 man pages for info.
