On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 2:27 PM, Ryan Pugatch<rpug at tripadvisor.com> wrote: > Ron Blizzard wrote: >> I've been having an odd problem lately. When I drag files from the >> computer to a flash drive, they appear to copy, but when I try to use >> the files I find that only the name was copied (file size of 0). When >> I copy the same files to the same flash drive, from the terminal, >> everything seems to work. >> >> Has anyone else experienced a problem like this? It's starting to get >> a little frustrating. >> > > > Anything weird being logged to /var/log/messages? Probably the first > place I'd check.. Yes, there is. I didn't know to look there -- a lot to learn. Jul 1 03:54:26 localhost kernel: Buffer I/O error on device sda1, logical block 519 Jul 1 03:54:26 localhost kernel: lost page write due to I/O error on sda1 Jul 1 03:54:26 localhost kernel: Buffer I/O error on device sda1, logical block 520 Jul 1 03:54:26 localhost kernel: lost page write due to I/O error on sda1 Jul 1 03:54:26 localhost kernel: sd 8:0:0:0: rejecting I/O to device being removed Jul 1 03:54:26 localhost kernel: Buffer I/O error on device sda1, logical block 18439 Jul 1 03:54:26 localhost kernel: lost page write due to I/O error on sda1 Jul 1 03:54:26 localhost kernel: sd 8:0:0:0: rejecting I/O to device being removed Jul 1 03:54:26 localhost kernel: Buffer I/O error on device sda1, logical block 18441 Jul 1 03:54:26 localhost kernel: lost page write due to I/O error on sda1 Jul 1 03:54:26 localhost kernel: Buffer I/O error on device sda1, logical block 18442 Jul 1 03:54:26 localhost kernel: lost page write due to I/O error on sda1 Jul 1 03:54:26 localhost hald[2450]: forcibly attempting to lazy unmount /dev/sda1 as enclosing drive was disc Jul 1 03:54:26 localhost hald: unmounted /dev/sda1 from '/media/disk' on behalf of uid 0 It looks like I'm getting I/O errors for some reason. Maybe a problem with the USB port itself? -- RonB -- Using CentOS 5.3