Greetings!

While this check is going on - a hypothesis. What if emplode checks all default root and music filesystems (/, /drive0, /drive1) for any errors, timers or mount counts. If it finds any problems, it schedules fsck runs. But what if emplode only runs fscks on the music partitions? Does emplode ever run an fsck against the root partition?

If this is the case, it is not a memory issue at all. Once the / partition gets dirty, emplode has no way of ever cleaning it. This would require manual intervention.

Just a theory...