Lately I've been having issues with one of my drives. Everytime I go to sync emplode locks while checking media. I've been getting around it by running the following commands at shell that I found in the FAQ:

ro
umount /dev/hda4
umount /dev/hdc4
swapon /swapfile
fsck -fay /
fsck -fay /dev/hda4
fsck -fay /dev/hdc4
swapoff /swapfile
sync

This works for a few hours/days? But I always end up having to do it again... I've had to do this 4 times in the last week... Any ideas? And end up in here making silly posts like this one