[NBLUG/talk] What does this mean?

E Frank Ball frankb at efball.com
Tue Jul 1 19:15:01 PDT 2003


On Tue, Jul 01, 2003 at 08:46:40AM -0700, Radford Spaeth wrote:
} 
} I created a directory on a floppy, moved some file in it, and tried to
} look at the files (using ls) but I got the following response:
} Ls: .:stale nfs file handle
} 
} What does this mean and how do I get rid of it?

I'd guess you copied the files from an NFS filesystem, which had the
server rebooted or some other problem.

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   E Frank Ball                frankb at efball.com



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