How can I resolve a stale nfs handle? I noticed once when I shut down my home server while my desktop was connected via NFS that I kept getting "stale NFS handle warning" when entering my home dir, this caused issues with some programs that looked in those folders. How do I resolve this issue without restarting my machine? Debian Squeeze/Wheezy

On Debian Squeeze/Wheezy:

Force unmount the local mount


umount -f /mnt/dir


Then restart nfs


/etc/init.d/nfs-common restart