Re: How to remove a damaged file

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On Wednesday 23 April 2008 15:15, John Summerfield wrote:
> 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?
>
> mkfs
>
> If that doesn't work, try fdisk and then mkfs. If it still doesn't work,
> <plonk>
>
I've used fdisk and mkfs on a blank disk, but I'm confused about this.  I 
guess it's getting around the problem of FAT file-systems, but it appears to 
have one parition of 8GB and three empty ones.  Something like LVM, I 
presume.

I don't feel that I know what I'm doing, here.

Anne

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