Help masking Stale file handle errors when using df

[Kaushal Modi]

Hello,

I use RHEL 6.6 at work. The sysadmin maintains a cron that backs up my
$HOME in $HOME/.snapshot/.

When I use the default df on RHEL 6.6 (coreutils 8.4!), I do not see any
"Stale file handle" errors.

But when I use the latest df (coreutils 8.28), I get many lines like these:

df: /home/kmodi/.snapshot/daily.2017-05-10_2000: Stale file handle
df: /home/kmodi/.snapshot/daily.2017-06-06_2000: Stale file handle
df: /home/kmodi/.snapshot/daily.2017-06-14_2000: Stale file handle
df: /home/kmodi/.snapshot/hourly.2017-06-19_1305: Stale file handle
df: /home/kmodi/.snapshot/hourly.2017-06-19_1105: Stale file handle
df: /home/kmodi/.snapshot/daily.2017-06-13_2000: Stale file handle
df: /home/kmodi/.snapshot/daily.2017-06-09_2000: Stale file handle
df: /home/kmodi/.snapshot/daily.2017-06-10_2000: Stale file handle
df: /home/kmodi/.snapshot/daily.2017-06-16_2000: Stale file handle
df: /home/kmodi/.snapshot/daily.2017-06-17_2000: Stale file handle
df: /home/kmodi/.snapshot/daily.2017-06-18_2000: Stale file handle

These directories do not exist anymore as routinely older backups are
removed from the ~/.snapshot directory.

I installed coreutils locally in my $HOME very recently starting last week.
So I never saw those Stale file handle errors earlier (which used df --
coreutils 8.4). But looks like some newer version after that started doing
this.

I use tcsh at work. I don't think you can redirect *just* std errors (to
/dev/null) on tcsh; the only redirection operator allowed is ">&" which
redirects both stderr and stdiyout. Would there be some other way to mast
these errors?

Thanks.
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Kaushal Modi