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32.Dd September 22, 2002
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 .
52The
53.Xr format 8
54manual
55for the specific architecture the system is running on should be
56consulted when formatting disks and tapes.
57Network related services like
58.Xr inetd 8
59and
60.Xr ftpd 8
61are also described.
62.Pp
63A number of pages in this section describe general system management
64topics. For example, the
65.Xr diskless 8
66page describes how to boot a system over a network, and the
67.Xr compat_linux 8
68page describes how to run Linux binaries on
69.Nx
70architectures that support it.
71.Sh HISTORY
72The
73.Nm intro
74section manual page appeared in
75.Bx 4.2 .
76