Re: Pendrive corrupted filesystem

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

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

>> > We need more information.  Show us the results of
>> >
>> > $ ls -aFl to-be-removed
>
> [...]
>
> How about:
> $ ls -aFl to-be-removed/News


Here's the whole situation:

$ ls -aFl /mnt/sda1
total 52
drwxr-xr-x   8 rodolfo rodolfo 16384 1970-01-01 01:00 ./
drwxr-xr-x   4 root    root     4096 2006-05-12 10:34 ../
drwxr-xr-x   4 rodolfo rodolfo  8192 2006-05-12 12:37 howto/
drwxr-xr-x  44 rodolfo rodolfo  8192 2006-05-12 23:38 Mail/
drwxr-xr-x   2 rodolfo rodolfo  4096 2006-05-06 14:31 math_and_other_stuff/
drwxr-xr-x   7 rodolfo rodolfo  4096 2006-05-12 23:39 News/
drwxr-xr-x   2 rodolfo rodolfo  4096 2006-04-15 19:40 Outlook/
drwxr-xr-x   3 rodolfo rodolfo  4096 2006-04-15 19:48 to-be-removed/

$ rm -vr to-be-removed
rm: cannot remove `to-be-removed': No such file or directory
rodolfo@hda10-pentium3:~$ rm -vr /mnt/sda1/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:
  `/mnt/sda1/to-be-removed/News/to-be-removed/News'

$ ls -aFl /mnt/sda1/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/

$ ls -aFl /mnt/sda1/to-be-removed/News
total 32
drwxr-xr-x   4 rodolfo rodolfo 8192 2006-05-12 12:37 howto/
drwxr-xr-x  44 rodolfo rodolfo 8192 2006-05-12 23:38 Mail/
drwxr-xr-x   2 rodolfo rodolfo 4096 2006-05-06 14:31 math_and_other_stuff/
drwxr-xr-x   7 rodolfo rodolfo 4096 2006-05-12 23:39 News/
drwxr-xr-x   2 rodolfo rodolfo 4096 2006-04-15 19:40 Outlook/
drwxr-xr-x   3 rodolfo rodolfo 4096 2006-04-15 19:48 to-be-removed/

$ ls -aFl /mnt/sda1/to-be-removed/News/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/

$ ls -aFl /mnt/sda1/to-be-removed/News/to-be-removed/News
total 32
drwxr-xr-x   4 rodolfo rodolfo 8192 2006-05-12 12:37 howto/
drwxr-xr-x  44 rodolfo rodolfo 8192 2006-05-12 23:38 Mail/
drwxr-xr-x   2 rodolfo rodolfo 4096 2006-05-06 14:31 math_and_other_stuff/
drwxr-xr-x   7 rodolfo rodolfo 4096 2006-05-12 23:39 News/
drwxr-xr-x   2 rodolfo rodolfo 4096 2006-04-15 19:40 Outlook/
drwxr-xr-x   3 rodolfo rodolfo 4096 2006-04-15 19:48 to-be-removed/


... and so on.

Cheers,
Rodolfo