How to remove a damaged file

[Anne Wilson]

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