Resolving Stale File Handle Error on Linux Systems (KBA1037)

In this case you must unmount and remount on the client side. Similar if the server is restarted.

Noticing a Stale File Handle error when you have one machine write to NFS and another client reading from a file that is atomically replaced with a mv ...

If I do multiple restarts of the POD, the issue fixes itself , especially when the mounted dir /var/nzrepl gets assigned with the original stdev ...

Resolution · Ensure no processes are accessing the mount point(s) by using lsof and searching the stale mount point: · Check what the PID is doing ...

Check the mount options on the mounted filesystem (with the mount command, of course). – Michael Hampton. Commented Jul 23, 2020 at 19:08.

My case is simple, after server rebooted, I'm getting Stale file handle on client side, even after I can control both end (and don't mind kill/restart ...

You get a stale file handle message because you asked for some nonexistent data. When you perform a cd operation, the shell reevaluates the inode location.

Stale file handle error means that the NFS server holds an old version of the files in his export path. An NFS server restart can sometimes help ...

I'm trying to mount an ext4 hdd but I get the error Stale file handle. Here's some background: After a reboot, my server was unable to load CentOS.

I'm running into an issue with stale file handle. I've googled a lot and was not able to find a reliable solution. Here's my setup, hopefully someone has an ...