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)). The
format(8) manual for the specific architecture the system is running on should be consulted when formatting disks and tapes. 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.