diff --git a/tests/extmod/vfs_fat_ramdisk.py b/tests/extmod/vfs_fat_ramdisk.py
index e514fe2285..8ccce27714 100644
--- a/tests/extmod/vfs_fat_ramdisk.py
+++ b/tests/extmod/vfs_fat_ramdisk.py
@@ -57,3 +57,6 @@ assert b"FOO_FILETXT" in bdev.data
 assert b"hello!" in bdev.data
 
 assert vfs.listdir() == ['foo_file.txt']
+
+vfs.remove('foo_file.txt')
+assert vfs.listdir() == []