On 01/14/11 1:01 AM, 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? last I heard, NTFS-3g still had issues with writing new files and directory block splitting.