NAME
intro —
introduction to system
maintenance procedures and commands
DESCRIPTION
This section contains information related to system operation and maintenance.
It describes commands used to create new file systems
(
newfs(8)), verify the integrity
of the file systems (
fsck(8)),
control disk usage
(
edquota(8)), maintain system
backups (
dump(8)), and recover
files when disks die an untimely death
(
restore(8)). Network related
services like
inetd(8) and
ftpd(8) are also described.
A number of pages in this section describe general system management topics. For
example, the
diskless(8) page
describes how to boot a system over a network, and the
compat_linux(8) page
describes how to run Linux binaries on
NetBSD
architectures that support it.
HISTORY
The
intro section manual page appeared in
4.2BSD.