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32 .Dd September 22, 2002
37 .Nd introduction to system maintenance procedures and commands
39 This section contains information related to system operation
42 It describes commands used to create new file systems
44 verify the integrity of the file systems
48 maintain system backups
50 and recover files when disks die an untimely death
55 for the specific architecture the system is running on should be
56 consulted when formatting disks and tapes.
57 Network related services like
63 A number of pages in this section describe general system management
64 topics. For example, the
66 page describes how to boot a system over a network, and the
68 page describes how to run Linux binaries on
70 architectures that support it.
74 section manual page appeared in