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rm -rf -> Circular directory structure
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- Subject: rm -rf -> Circular directory structure
- From: Christoph Kukulies <kuku at gilberto dot physik dot RWTH-Aachen dot DE>
- Date: Wed, 6 Aug 1997 11:19:50 +0200 (MEST)
I'm having a weird problem under NT 4.0 (I remember to
have seen this with b17 and NT3.51 also):
D:\>rm -rf somedir
rm: WARNING: Circular directory structure.
This almost certainly means that you have a corrupted file system.
NOTIFY YOUR SYSTEM MANAGER.
Cycle detected:
somedir/FOO/FOO
is the same file as
somedir
CHKDSK doesn't flag any errors on the filesystem and I tend to believe
this isn't the cause anyway.
The interesting thing is: When I remove the file somedir/FOO/FOO
the rm command is able to run through without errors.
--
Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de
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