How to remove a damaged file

[Jamie Bohr]

You need to use mkfs

On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 8:32 AM, Anne Wilson <cannewilson at googlemail.com>
wrote:

> On Wednesday 23 April 2008 15:15, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > On Wed, 2008-04-23 at 15:05 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote:
> > > Due to a loss of concentration I have a damaged directory called
> Packages
> > > on my pen-drive.  I can't rm it - Input/output error.  I've cleared
> > > everything else off. How can I get rid of this?
> >
> > Format the drive. You could also try fsck but an I/O error looks bad.
> >
> fsck said it had corrected errors, but it didn't help.  Strangely, here
> isn't
> a man page for format.
>
> Anne
>
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