[K12OSN] Help! 280gigs of one student folder copied recursively into inself

[James P. Kinney III]

On Mon, 2006-09-25 at 12:27 -0600, Jim Christiansen wrote:
> I don't know how this happenned, but I started an scp job of my student 
> homes from the old server across to the new server and walked away.  Today I 
> have found that the 8 gigs of data has grown to fill the entire 320 gig 
> drive, most of it being one student's directory recursively copied into 
> itself...
> 
> The old server drive is failing but I can't see how this could affect the s 
> copy...  I did and fschk to get it to reboot before the scp job.
> 
> The new server can not seem to rm -rf the offending folder.  I have been 
> waiting about one hour, and still nothing.

Since it is 320GB of recursive links, it will take a LONG time. Several
hours. 

Unfortunately, there is no flag in scp to not follow symlinks that can
be added to your toolkit. rsync can handle symlinks better (--links).
> 
> Is there any other way to get this removed?
> 
> Thanks,  Jim
> 
> 
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