copy corrupting last block of file?

[Joe Zeff]

On 12/20/2012 04:45 PM, Tom Horsley wrote:
> When I use "cp" though, it fails every time for the same half dozen
> tries. I've even shutdown the system and let it cool off and rebooted
> and cp still fails and rsync still works :-).

Try using cp to copy one or more large files from one directory to 
another on your hard drive and see if it works.  If possible, try 
copying from one partition to another.