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32.Dd December 14, 2010
33.Dt INTRO 8
34.Os
35.Sh NAME
36.Nm intro
37.Nd introduction to system maintenance procedures and commands
38.Sh DESCRIPTION
39This section contains information related to system operation
40and maintenance.
41.Pp
42It describes commands used to create new file systems
43.Pq Xr newfs 8 ,
44verify the integrity of the file systems
45.Pq Xr fsck 8 ,
46control disk usage
47.Pq Xr edquota 8 ,
48maintain system backups
49.Pq Xr dump 8 ,
50and recover files when disks die an untimely death
51.Pq Xr restore 8 .
52Network related services like
53.Xr inetd 8
54and
55.Xr ftpd 8
56are also described.
57.Pp
58A number of pages in this section describe general system management
59topics. For example, the
60.Xr diskless 8
61page describes how to boot a system over a network, and the
62.Xr compat_linux 8
63page describes how to run Linux binaries on
64.Nx
65architectures that support it.
66.Sh HISTORY
67The
68.Nm intro
69section manual page appeared in
70.Bx 4.2 .
71