From: petheram@acm.org (Bill Petheram) Subject: Re: rm circular reference problem 27 Jan 1997 01:44:10 -0800 Approved: cygnus.gnu-win32@cygnus.com Distribution: cygnus Message-ID: <32EC6F73.6BE5.cygnus.gnu-win32@acm.org> References: Reply-To: petheram@acm.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (Win95; I) Original-To: gnu-win32@cygnus.com Original-Sender: owner-gnu-win32@cygnus.com You have to delete the files that cause the problem manually. There doesn't seem to be a problem with the disk. bill Ron Forrester wrote: > > I am using b17.1. I still have problems with rm -rf saying that there is > a circular reference (and that my disk is almost certainly corrupt :) > when removing entire trees. > > Is this still a known problem (saw nothing in the mailing list > archives... > Is there a workaround? > > rjf > > - > For help on using this list, send a message to > "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help". - For help on using this list, send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".