In my experience (admittedly from some years ago), you have to be pretty careful about using the terminal when NFS fails, since you can pretty easily lock up yo

In my experience (admittedly from some years ago), you have to be pretty careful about using the terminal when NFS fails, since you can pretty easily lock up your terminal, of which you only have a "fixed" supply. If you're using NFS, chances are good your home directory is on NFS so you need to make sure you don't accidentally stat() something in the current path (which is probably in your home directory). Obviously, starting new terminal sessions once you've locked one up isn't going to happen. But you'll probably waste a couple trying to figure out what's going on. You'll also want to have that mount command written on a piece of paper somewhere (and remember that you have it), since you can't read your notes.txt file in your home directory. You probably can't do a web search, since the browser reads/writes a cache to your home directory. (Maybe lynx or links would work?) Hopefully you didn't add ~/bin or an NFS-mounted /opt or something before the system paths or you'll need to do run everything with the full path. But... a bunch of tool installers like to prepend their directory to your path if you let them fix everything automatically. I have a ~/.gem/ruby/2.3.0/bin early in my path right now, completely didn't realize.