On Monday 05 November 2012 22:35, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote: > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos output of fdisk: Command (m for help): p Disk /dev/sde: 68.7 GB, 68719476736 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 8354 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sde1 1 4177 33551721 83 Linux --- output of ll -rw-r--r-- 1 user user 9230653440 Aug 5 22:47 file.tar