Can you mount the file system up and do a copy? cp --sparse=always cp --sparse=always /home/raymond/LV2/NLS-Storage/NLS-Storage-flat.vmdk /home/raymond/sdf/NLS-Storage/NLS-Storage-flat.vmdk cp: error reading ‘/home/raymond/LV2/NLS-Storage/NLS-Storage-flat.vmdk’: Input/output error cp: failed to extend ‘/home/raymond/sdf/NLS-Storage/NLS-Storage-flat.vmdk’: Input/output error -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20170727/7c530e70/attachment.html>