On Friday 14 January 2011 04:01, Ritika Garg wrote: > When I give the command "cp file1 file2" then the error comes: > cp: cannot create regular file `file2': Input/output error > > This occurs sometimes and it occurs when I am giving the command inside a > external hard disk which is mounted by "ntfs-3g" manually. > Why does this error come? I believe it is self explanatory. Looks like you don't have write permissions on the drive. Check your permissions. -- Regards Robert Linux The adventure of a lifetime. Linux User #296285 Get Counted http://counter.li.org/