Well I SSHed in to the system and I’m guessing because of my issue I was SSHing into the recovery shell because all I did was stop the media center then
sudo fsck -y /
and it did it for me. I didn’t have to unmount it or anything.
After attempting to run it fsck again on a now working system I wasn’t able to due to a:
/dev/sda1 is mounted.
e2fsck: Cannot continue, aborting.
error message. When I went to unmount it by:
sudo umount /dev/sda1
or
sudo umount /
I got a:
umount: /: target is busy
(In some cases useful info about processes that
use the device is found by lsof(8) or fuser(1).)
so i wasn’t able to unmount it in order to run fsck…