From:	petheram AT acm DOT org (Bill Petheram)
Subject:	Re: rm circular reference problem
27 Jan 1997 01:44:10 -0800 :
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You have to delete the files that cause the problem manually. There
doesn't seem to be a problem with the disk.

bill

Ron Forrester wrote:
> 
> I am using b17.1. I still have problems with rm -rf saying that there is
> a circular reference (and that my disk is almost certainly corrupt :)
> when removing entire trees.
> 
> Is this still a known problem (saw nothing in the mailing list
> archives...
> Is there a workaround?
> 
> rjf
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