Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ 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 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]