Please don't top post. Twanny Azzopardi wrote: > On Monday 05 November 2012 22:20, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote: >> Twanny Azzopardi wrote: >> > >> > I formatted a 64MB usb stick with this command 'mkfs.ext2 -b 1024 >> > /dev/XXX1' , >> > to copy a file of 9230653440, but when it reached 7921295360, it gave >> > input/output error and the file is not copied. >> > >> > How should this be done? >> >> What's the o/p of df? >> > Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on > /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00 > 281769440 38265676 228959688 15% / > /dev/hda1 101086 18743 77124 20% /boot > tmpfs 501104 0 501104 0% /dev/shm > /var/ftp/iso/CentOS-5.8-i386-bin-DVD-1of2.iso > 3831642 3831642 0 100% /var/ftp/centos > /var/ftp/iso/FreePBX-1.814.210.58-i386-Full-1343753603.iso > 728838 728838 0 100% /var/ftp/FreePBX > /dev/sde1 33016917 7770601 23568730 25% /mnt > When you did that, a) is the flash drive mounted, and b) is it /dev/sde1? Actually, now I'm *really* confused: did you mean that the drive was 64G, or 64M? Finally, please realize that the metadata for a filesystem will result in the filesystem being smaller than the raw drive. For example, here at work, I have a 250G drive, with a 1G /boot, a 2G swap, and the rest /... and formatted, / is 229G. mark