Re: Pendrive corrupted filesystem
On Fri, 2006-05-12 at 19:26 +0200, Rodolfo Medina wrote:
> 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/
How about:
$ ls -aFl to-be-removed/News
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Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson, LA USA
If 1/2 of all US marriages end in divorce, and there are a good
number of 3rd, 4th, etc marriages, then more than 1/2 of all 1st
marriages will be permanent.
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