Re: Pendrive corrupted filesystem

[Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.medina@gmail.com>]

Rodolfo Medina wrote:

>> When I try to remove a certain directory from my pendrive,
>> the following error message appears:
>> 
>> $ rm -vr to-be-removed
>> rm: WARNING: Circular directory structure.
>> This almost certainly means that you have a corrupted file system.
>> NOTIFY YOUR SYSTEM MANAGER.
>> The following directory is part of the cycle:
>>   `to-be-removed/News/to-be-removed/News'
>> 
>> . Do I have to throw it away, or is there a way to repair it?



Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> writes:

> We need more information.  Show us the results of
>
> $ ls -aFl to-be-removed



Thanks. Here it is:

$ ls -aFl to-be-removed
total 20
drwxr-xr-x  3 rodolfo rodolfo  4096 2006-04-15 19:48 ./
drwxr-xr-x  8 rodolfo rodolfo 16384 1970-01-01 01:00 ../
drwxr-xr-x  0 rodolfo rodolfo     0 2006-04-15 19:01 News/


Cheers,
Rodolfo