System Administration Guide: Basic Administration

Manual Pages for Generic and Specific Commands

Both the generic commands and specific commands have manual pages in the man Pages(1M): System Administration Commands. The manual page for the generic file system commands provide information about generic command options only. The manual page for a specific file system command has specific information about options for that file system. To look at a specific manual page, append an underscore and the abbreviation for the file system type to the generic command name. For example, to see the specific manual page for mounting a UFS file system, type the following:


$ man mount_ufs