On Mon, 5 Nov 2012, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote: > Twanny Azzopardi wrote: >> Hello list, >> >> 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? Assuming that is the file size in bytes, it's bigger than will fit on the stick. Steve