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Subject: Stale NFS file handle.
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Hi,

I went to type make install ona n NFS mounted partition and got the error:

# make install
make: Stale NFS file handle

Anyone know hwat it means? I had to umount and remount the partition to
get it working again...

Thanks,

Andrew