What was your mount command? Who is the owner of the exported file system? -- Thanks, Gene Brandt SCSA 8625 Carriage Road River Ridge, LA 70123 home 504-737-4295 cell 504-452-3250 Family Web Page | My Web Page | LinkedIn | Facebook | Resumebucket On Fri, 2011-01-14 at 15:06 +0000, John Hodrien wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20110114/d0cba097/attachment-0003.html>