On Fri, 11 Apr 1997, Jon Lefman wrote:

> Well I added / after the fsck line in /etc/rc and I'm up and running again.
> Should I run fsck manually on /kern and /proc?  Does fsck actually check
> the swap partition on the boot?  Just curious about that.

/kern and /proc are not ufs file systems, they're kernfs and procfs file
systems respectively (at least on _most_ systems I've seen).  fsck won't
do any good on these, since they're not disk-resident - it won't hurt
anything, though.

> I'll go ahead and give it shot and run fsck on /kern and /proc.  I'm not
> sure if this is the problem though.  I'm actually getting *usage errors*
> from fsck.

The usage error is because you specified both -p and -y options.  They
don't make sense to use in the same fsck command.

`fsck -p' or `fsck -y' makes sense, but `fsck -p -y' doesn't, regardless
of whether you append a file system name (eg, / or /usr or something
else).

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