Inode Errors

[Akuma7g]

Hi all!
I have a Red Hat 6.2 Linux server that continually shows inode errors:
"Sep 17 04:47:51 xxxxxx kernel: iput: device 08:11 inode 655240 still has aliases!"

Can anyone tell me exactly what this means? How to interpret the 08:11 to tell me what drive/mount this is?
And possibly how to fix it? I've fun fsck on several of these drives and inode errors were fixed but they keep coming back. Could this be a hardware error??
Thanks!

[Linuxcool]

I don't know how to fix your problem, but looking around I found out that ' device 08:11 ' is /dev/sda11.

[Akuma7g]

Then it stands to reason that this error is from a mounted NFS device since there is no physical device with that tag on it.

I ran across some info on how to read that stuff a long time ago but lost the bookmark and can't fine new info on it.

Thanks for the reply at least!

[Linuxcool]

I used to be able to find out by running ' mc ' ( midnight commander ) and then going to the /dev directory. Looking at the right side of the listing, it would give you the major and minor numbers. I don't have mc any more. I use ls -l /dev or ls -l /dev/device_name now.

If you know the device ( /dev/sda11 ), you can use the command ' file ' ( file /dev/sda11 ) to give you the numbers.

[ 20 September 2001: Message edited by: Linuxcool ]