From: fabio@joplin.colorado.edu (Fabio Somenzi) Subject: rm circular reference problem 25 Jan 1997 00:25:21 -0800 Approved: cygnus.gnu-win32@cygnus.com Distribution: cygnus Message-ID: <199701250557.WAA12634.cygnus.gnu-win32@joplin.colorado.edu> References: Reply-To: Fabio@Colorado.EDU Original-To: Ron Forrester Original-Cc: "'GNU-Win32'" In-Reply-To: Original-Sender: owner-gnu-win32@cygnus.com >>>>> "RF" == Ron Forrester writes: RF> I am using b17.1. I still have problems with rm -rf saying that RF> there is a circular reference (and that my disk is almost RF> certainly corrupt :) when removing entire trees. RF> Is this still a known problem (saw nothing in the mailing list RF> archives... Is there a workaround? I've had this problem occasionally. Removing selected files would get rid of the error message. Then one day I ran the disk scan program that comes with Win95. It reported some errors and apparently fixed them. Since then I haven't experienced the problem again, though I must add that since then I have used rm -rf only a handful of times. Fabio -- Fabio Somenzi | Phone: 303-492-3466 University of Colorado | Fax: 303-492-2758 ECE Dept. | Email: Fabio@Colorado.EDU Boulder CO 80309-0425 | WWW: http://vlsi.colorado.edu/~fabio - For help on using this list, send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".