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I am trying to get mldonkey to work, and to stop pausing my downloads...
Some posts on another site reccoment fsck'ing the drive, so I have followed the instructions with no success.

I have tried to umount /dev/loop/0 (as this is the one to be checked, but is writable). and it just repeats 'device is busy' i have tried killing all the processes on the drive, but i get kicked off ssh because ssh is killed along with init!

and i cannot run fsck on a ritable drive as it says the drive has writable permissions....so how can i fsck the drive?

any commands im missing here?

cheers for any help.

How in the hell do you expect to unmount your filesystem whilst youre running the operating system? o.O

This is exactly what "Sparkle" was invented for - it fscks your filesystem safely. Also.... fscking isnt going to make mldonkey download quicker (or stop pausing) --- not sure what people's logic for that one is.

ooo....sorry! I assumed it unmounted the root from linux in a way, but obviously the HD could be accessed.

Just following advice, dont flame me for it, after all i am a n00b to all this stuff.

apart from not posting in the Noobe section where we will not flame questions that a little reasearch will find the answer before you ask..

but here is some new person help!!!
try the command man man.. linux has a great thing called a man file

Running fsck : fsck should always be run in a single user mode which ensures proper repair of file system . If it is run in a busy system where the file system is changing constantly fsck may see the changes as inconsistencies and may corrupt the file system .

if the system can not be brought in a single user mode fsck should be run on the partitions ,other than root & usr , after unmounting them . Root & usr partitions can not be unmounted . If the system fails to come up due to root/usr files system corruption the system can booted with CD and root/usr partitions can be repaired using fsck.