NetBSD-5.0.2/share/man/man8/intro.8

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.Dd September 22, 2002
.Dt INTRO 8
.Os
.Sh NAME
.Nm intro
.Nd introduction to system maintenance procedures and commands
.Sh DESCRIPTION
This section contains information related to system operation
and maintenance.
.Pp
It describes commands used to create new file systems
.Pq Xr newfs 8 ,
verify the integrity of the file systems
.Pq Xr fsck 8 ,
control disk usage
.Pq Xr edquota 8 ,
maintain system backups
.Pq Xr dump 8 ,
and recover files when disks die an untimely death
.Pq Xr restore 8 .
The
.Xr format 8
manual
for the specific architecture the system is running on should be
consulted when formatting disks and tapes.
Network related services like
.Xr inetd 8
and
.Xr ftpd 8
are also described.
.Pp
A number of pages in this section describe general system management
topics. For example, the
.Xr diskless 8
page describes how to boot a system over a network, and the
.Xr compat_linux 8
page describes how to run Linux binaries on
.Nx
architectures that support it.
.Sh HISTORY
The
.Nm intro
section manual page appeared in
.Bx 4.2 .