[CentOS] input/output error while copy
John Hodrien
J.H.Hodrien at leeds.ac.uk
Fri Jan 14 15:06:51 UTC 2011
On Fri, 14 Jan 2011, Robert Spangler wrote:
> 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.
Since when does Input/output error equate to a permissions problem? If that's
the case, surely that's a bug in ntfs-3g as it's returning the wrong error
code.
jh
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