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Re: Pendrive corrupted filesystem



On Fri, 2006-05-12 at 11:13 +0200, Rodolfo Medina wrote:
> Hi.
> 
> 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?

We need more information.  Show us the results of

$ ls -aFl to-be-removed


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