On 10 August 2012 15:25, Ross Drummond <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. > > True, but have you done a Microsoft Windows chkdsk?
It's possible that you have damaged the filesystem in some way. My reading of a few manual and web pages infers that it is currently not possible to repair as many problems using ntfs-3g as it is using the genuine windows chkdsk program. I do not know if it's possible to this inside an instance of VMWare, virtualbox or similar. Anybody? -- Sincerely, Christopher Sawtell
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