INTRO(8)

NAME
intro - introduction to system maintenance and operation commands

DESCRIPTION
This section contains information related to system operation and maintenance. It describes commands used to create new file systems, ‘newfs’, verify the integrity of the file systems, ‘fsck’, control disk usage, ‘edquota’, maintain system backups, ‘dump’, and recover files when disks die an untimely death, ‘restore’. The ‘format’ manual for the specific architecture the system is running on should be consulted when formatting disks and tapes. Network related services like ‘inetd’ and ‘ftpd’ are also described. The section ‘crash’ should be consulted to understand how to interpret system crash dumps.

HISTORY
The intro section manual page appeared in 4.2BSD.