On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 05:28:13PM +0100, Stefan Oschkera wrote: > Gents, > > FYI: For testing purposes, I???ve formatted the external USB-drive with EXT3 > and, believe it or not, no problems whatsoever. After re-formatting the same > drive with FAT32 and copying the very same directories and files onto the USB > drive, again an error message is issued and the copy process fails. > > Indeed, the problem seems to be somehow connected to the FAT32 driver of the > kernel.
How large's the USB media in question? Are you maybe running into limitations of the ancient FAT32 specs? Cheers, Moritz -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org