Can't seem to get around error mount: Stale NFS file handle details: Linux xenon 3.0.0-12-generic-pae #20-Ubuntu SMP Fri Oct 7 16:37:17 UTC 2011 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux mdadm - v3.1.4 - 31st August 2010 array appears to be OK: $ sudo mdadm -D /dev/md1 [sudo] password for skip: /dev/md1: Version : 1.2 Creation Time : Thu Dec 29 15:52:40 2011 Raid Level : raid1 Array Size : 488384400 (465.76 GiB 500.11 GB) Used Dev Size : 488384400 (465.76 GiB 500.11 GB) Raid Devices : 2 Total Devices : 2 Persistence : Superblock is persistent Update Time : Fri Jun 15 21:44:19 2012 State : clean Active Devices : 2 Working Devices : 2 Failed Devices : 0 Spare Devices : 0 Name : xenon:1 (local to host xenon) UUID : bd87c6e8:0253a174:e97be67c:5470db08 Events : 54 Number Major Minor RaidDevice State 0 8 33 0 active sync /dev/sdc1 1 8 49 1 active sync /dev/sdd1 Components and array appear in blkid: $ blkid ... /dev/sdc1: UUID="bd87c6e8-0253-a174-e97b-e67c5470db08" UUID_SUB="7a254626-be94-dfcf-ea30-cbea9a17bdd8" LABEL="xenon:1" TYPE="linux_raid_member" /dev/sdd1: UUID="bd87c6e8-0253-a174-e97b-e67c5470db08" UUID_SUB="d4d9c1e1-36cb-3f87-9030-ac37525f6046" LABEL="xenon:1" TYPE="linux_raid_member" ... LABEL="xenon:0" TYPE="linux_raid_member" /dev/md1: UUID="dadb7d1c-daa2-4e56-8ef7-2816db397289" TYPE="ext2" /dev/md1p1: UUID="6b30cdc5-25da-4575-b883-c1966e901b84" TYPE="ext2" and in /proc/partitions ... 8 32 488386584 sdc 8 33 488385560 sdc1 8 48 488386584 sdd 8 49 488385560 sdd1 ... 9 1 488384400 md1 259 0 488383376 md1p1 But mounting by device or UUID results in same error: $ sudo mount -t ext2 -U dadb7d1c-daa2-4e56-8ef7-2816db397289 /mnt/back mount: Stale NFS file handle $ sudo mount -t ext2 /dev/md1 /mnt/back mount: Stale NFS file handle I do not have NFS intalled, only ssh and smb. Any help will be appreciated. Please point out any info I have missed. Thanks, Skip -- Skip Coombe skip.coombe@xxxxxxxxx -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html