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diff --git a/guestfish-actions.pod b/guestfish-actions.pod
index c31905a..62be2a9 100644
--- a/guestfish-actions.pod
+++ b/guestfish-actions.pod
@@ -429,6 +429,19 @@ There is no comprehensive help for this command.  You have
 to look at the file C<daemon/debug.c> in the libguestfs source
 to find out what you can do.
 
+=head2 dmesg
+
+ dmesg
+
+This returns the kernel messages (C<dmesg> output) from
+the guest kernel.  This is sometimes useful for extended
+debugging of problems.
+
+Another way to get the same information is to enable
+verbose messages with C<set-verbose> or by setting
+the environment variable C<LIBGUESTFS_DEBUG=1> before
+running the program.
+
 =head2 download
 
  download remotefilename (filename|-)
@@ -456,6 +469,15 @@ Setting C<whattodrop> to 3 should drop everything.
 This automatically calls L<sync(2)> before the operation,
 so that the maximum guest memory is freed.
 
+=head2 equal
+
+ equal file1 file2
+
+This compares the two files C<file1> and C<file2> and returns
+true if their content is exactly equal, or false otherwise.
+
+The external L<cmp(1)> program is used for the comparison.
+
 =head2 exists
 
  exists path
@@ -757,7 +779,7 @@ as necessary.  This is like the C<mkdir -p> shell command.
  mkfs fstype device
 
 This creates a filesystem on C<device> (usually a partition
-of LVM logical volume).  The filesystem type is C<fstype>, for
+or LVM logical volume).  The filesystem type is C<fstype>, for
 example C<ext3>.
 
 =head2 mount
@@ -820,6 +842,15 @@ Some internal mounts are not shown.
 This moves a file from C<src> to C<dest> where C<dest> is
 either a destination filename or destination directory.
 
+=head2 ping-daemon
+
+ ping-daemon
+
+This is a test probe into the guestfs daemon running inside
+the qemu subprocess.  Calling this function checks that the
+daemon responds to the ping message, without affecting the daemon
+or attached block device(s) in any other way.
+
 =head2 pvcreate
 
  pvcreate device