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