On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 10:49 AM, neubyr <neubyr at gmail.com> wrote: > Howdy, > > I have renamed a directory on NFS ver 3 server and then created a new > directory again with the same name. > # mv dir dir-hosed > # mkdir dir > > The directory is auto-mounted on client side. I had unmounted > directories on client side before making above changes. Now when I try > to mount back 'dir', I still see old files and not new empty dir. Am I > missing something here in the NFS config? Is it caching old directory > contents? Any help? One step at a time. Show your automount tables: are you using direct automounting, which requires "/sbin/service autofs reload" ? Or indirect automounting, which should just work? And when you say you "unmounted directories on client side", how exactly did you do that? Did you do "umount /mount/dir" and get a successful unmount? Or did you do a naughty thing and use "umount -l", which can create chaos without careful handling? If you have old software holding open the mount point, the automounting changes *will not* overwrite the old mountpoint until they are released properly. And it shouldn't!