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• 'du' reports "Circular directory structure." (#11514), similarity score: 0.91
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I mailed the WSL logs to [email protected].

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@Hopsakee skip that folder with --exclude argument:

sudo du -h --max-depth=1 --exclude=/sys/kernel/debug/device_component

That directory is empty most likely!

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@zcobol thanks for your reply. If I understand you correctly I can ignore the "This almost certainly means that you have a corrupted file system." because it's raised by an empty directory and not an actual circular reference indicating I have somehow corrupted my file system?

In that case I'm happy to ignore the warning using --exclude.

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/sys/kernel/debug is a virtual filesystem. If you try to list any file it will show as empty because they are not real files but entry points into current running kernel. And is nothing unusual to have cross-references inside sysfs. Unmount /sys/kernel/debug and run du again.

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Great. I understand. Thanks.

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