The 240 error can happen:

a) If you are trying to mount the drive in an EXT4 on an EXT2 partition (journaling is disabled).
b) If you have mounted in EXT4 when using grub.
c) If you have a ext4 root and don’t use grub2, you can obtain this error:
EXT3-fs: sda1: couldnt mount because of unsupported optional features (240)

Add "rootfstype=ext4" to the kernel line or at the grub>  line when specifying the initrd?

ARE you CERTAIN you have ext4 and not ext2?

You can "fdisk -l" to see a list of disks and types.

Of course, there also is:

d) Your drive journal is toast as your fsck failed.

I suggest you boot into either recovery mode or LiveDistro/Knoppix and manually work on the drive or:

0) Boot into recovery mode and follow these instructions.  https://help.ubuntu.com/community/LiveCdRecovery

if not successful:

0) Move off or backup your data.

1) Rebuild with new distro version following recovery recommendations:  

I can drop an Ubuntu Live and a knoppix tool distro into the mail for you today?  What is your distro version exactly, please and upgrade choice?


Contact me offline with your address?

Other references:

Fsck:  https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SystemAdministration/Fsck

Booting Ubuntu 10.10 into Recovery Mode: 
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/RecoveryMode



On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 6:36 AM, kitepilot@kitepilot.com <kitepilot@kitepilot.com> wrote:
I have a problem, I can't download ubuntu with my live cd.
This is easy to do but I live in the corner of Alabama, Tennessee and Georgia (in GA) and it is a fairly long drive (I've done it both ways several times)
I'll be glad to help you over the phone.
root@1[hda1]# mount /dev/hda1 hda1
Type:
cat /proc/partitions
You can only mount what shows in that file.
However:
[17196389.468000] EXT3-fs: hda1: couldn't mount because of unsupported
Points to an unrecognizable filesystem.
Try:
fsck -N /dev/...
but:
mount -o ro /dev/hda1 hda1
Sometimes works...
Is there antway to retreive the data w/o spending any money?
Yes, I've done it.  use (THEY ARE DIFFERENT):
ddrescue (http://www.gnu.org/s/ddrescue/ddrescue.html) or
dd_rescue (http://www.garloff.de/kurt/linux/ddrescue/)
One is "better" than the other but I can't remember which one/why.
The freezer trick works every time (or most every time anyway...  :)
ET
PS: As usual, "free advice, you can't sue me!  :)"
YMMV...

Michael Havens writes:
I have a problem, I can't download ubuntu with my live cd. I live in
cottonwood. Does anyone live around here who can copy it for me and
I'll drive over to you to get it? Doesn't one of you live on Mingus
Mountain?
On 11/13/11, Stephen <cryptworks@gmail.com> wrote:
http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk has been useful for me in the past.
On Sun, Nov 13, 2011 at 6:33 PM, Michael Havens <bmike1@gmail.com> wrote:
Is this the right command
root@1[hda1]# mount /dev/hda1 hda1
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hda1,
      missing codepage or other error
      In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
      dmesg | tail  or so
root@1[hda1]# mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/hda1
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hda1,
      missing codepage or other error
      In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
      dmesg | tail  or so
root@1[hda1]# dmesg |tail
[17179619.724000] Adding 1646620k swap on /dev/hda5.  Priority:1
extents:1 across:1646620k
[17179621.012000] ACPI: Power Button (FF) [PWRF]
[17179621.012000] ACPI: Power Button (CM) [PWRB]
[17179621.248000] ibm_acpi: ec object not found
[17179621.300000] pcc_acpi: loading...
[17179621.416000] ACPI: Thermal Zone [THM0] (36 C)
[17179635.144000] ppdev: user-space parallel port driver
[17179639.016000] powernow: This module only works with AMD K7 CPUs
[17196389.468000] EXT3-fs: hda1: couldn't mount because of unsupported
optional features (240).
[17196610.992000] EXT3-fs: hda1: couldn't mount because of unsupported
optional features (240).
root@1[hda1]#
Hmm. I am suspecting a crash. I s there antway to retreive the data
w/o spending any money?

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