On Fri, 10 Aug 2012, Bryce Stenberg wrote: > thanks for the suggestions. > > The filesystem on the usb hard drive does not have a 2GB limit - it > already has several backup image files well over 100GB each. > > I tried the system rescue cd, it gave a similar error of "cp: failed to > extend './filename' : Input/output error". >
Only a suggestion but why not try this from a terminal usin cp with the -v or--verbose option enabled to see if you get more informative error output. Cheers Ross Drummond _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.canterbury.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
