Rikard Johnels wrote: > I had my fileserver on a reboot, and the clients mounting extra areas via NFS > lost track of the mounts. > > As i try to remount i get: > > mount /mnt/network/server/sda > mount: Stale NFS file handle > > Where can i see the handles, and how can i reset them?
The simplest answer is to reboot any clients where this has occurred. If you don't want to do that, you'll need to unmount each stale handle before you can remount it: umount /mnt/network/server/sda mount /mnt/network/server/sda Sometimes the umount doesn't work because something is using the NFS filesystem. In that case you need to stop whatever processes are using the mounts. You can usually find running programs that are using files easily enough (lsof etc). It's easy to overlook a terminal shell window that happens to have its current directory inside the filesystem (so type cd / in any questionable shells). If you have active processes using the filesystem and you don't want to kill them, things are more complicated. I've sometimes managed by using the force and lazy options to umount, but I don't remember the exact incantations, and it will depend on exactly what the processes are doing. I'm sure there are more professional ways to do it, but that's how I do it :) Cheers, Dave -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
