Fix man page typos

Signed-off-by: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@jwilk.net>

13 files changed, 16 insertions, 16 deletions

diff --git a/disk-utils/mkfs.minix.8 b/disk-utils/mkfs.minix.8
index 708827b3f..a640deb55 100644
--- a/disk-utils/mkfs.minix.8
+++ b/disk-utils/mkfs.minix.8
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ is usually of the following form:
 .RE
 .fi
 
-The device may be a block device or a image file of one, but this is not
+The device may be a block device or an image file of one, but this is not
 enforced.  Expect not much fun on a character device :-).
 .PP
 The
diff --git a/disk-utils/sfdisk.8 b/disk-utils/sfdisk.8
index 2fa521706..8f614b946 100644
--- a/disk-utils/sfdisk.8
+++ b/disk-utils/sfdisk.8
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ sense for new devices.
 (since version 2.26)
 .B aligns the start and end of partitions
 to block-device I/O limits when relative sizes are specified, when the default
-values are used or when multiplicative suffixes (e.g MiB) are used for sizes.
+values are used or when multiplicative suffixes (e.g. MiB) are used for sizes.
 It is possible that partition size will be optimized (reduced or enlarged) due
 to alignment if the start offset is specified exactly in sectors and partition
 size relative or by multiplicative suffixes.
diff --git a/libuuid/man/uuid_generate.3 b/libuuid/man/uuid_generate.3
index a5b0ab701..d30075905 100644
--- a/libuuid/man/uuid_generate.3
+++ b/libuuid/man/uuid_generate.3
@@ -109,7 +109,7 @@ and
 .B uuid_generate_sha1
 functions generate an MD5 and SHA1 hashed (predictable) UUID based on a
 well-known UUID providing the namespace and an arbitrary binary string. The UUIDs
-confirm to V3 and V5 UUIDs per RFC-4122.
+conform to V3 and V5 UUIDs per RFC-4122.
 .SH RETURN VALUE
 The newly created UUID is returned in the memory location pointed to by
 .IR out .
diff --git a/libuuid/man/uuid_unparse.3 b/libuuid/man/uuid_unparse.3
index 7da02079f..8fb7a5956 100644
--- a/libuuid/man/uuid_unparse.3
+++ b/libuuid/man/uuid_unparse.3
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@
 .\" Created  Wed Mar 10 17:42:12 1999, Andreas Dilger
 .TH UUID_UNPARSE 3 "May 2009" "util-linux" "Libuuid API"
 .SH NAME
-uuid_unparse \- convert an UUID from binary representation to a string
+uuid_unparse \- convert a UUID from binary representation to a string
 .SH SYNOPSIS
 .nf
 .B #include <uuid.h>
diff --git a/login-utils/su.1 b/login-utils/su.1
index 709c5e655..5cf3211ef 100644
--- a/login-utils/su.1
+++ b/login-utils/su.1
@@ -112,7 +112,7 @@ Create pseudo-terminal for the session. The independent terminal provides
 better security as user does not share terminal with the original
 session.  This allow to avoid TIOCSTI ioctl terminal injection and another
 security attacks against terminal file descriptors. The all session is also
-possible to move to background (e.g. "su --pty - usename -c
+possible to move to background (e.g. "su --pty - username -c
 application &"). If the pseudo-terminal is enabled then su command works
 as a proxy between the sessions (copy stdin and stdout).
 
diff --git a/misc-utils/uuidparse.1 b/misc-utils/uuidparse.1
index b3362d401..516f45836 100644
--- a/misc-utils/uuidparse.1
+++ b/misc-utils/uuidparse.1
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 .\" The 3-Clause BSD License
 .TH UUIDPARSE "1" "2017-06-18" "util-linux" "User Commands"
 .SH NAME
-uuidparse \- an utility to parse unique identifiers
+uuidparse \- a utility to parse unique identifiers
 .SH SYNOPSIS
 .B uuidparse
 [options]
diff --git a/sys-utils/choom.1 b/sys-utils/choom.1
index 13e4fc247..2b844cbe2 100644
--- a/sys-utils/choom.1
+++ b/sys-utils/choom.1
@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ always preferring a certain task or completely disabling it.  The lowest
 possible value, -1000, is equivalent to disabling oom killing entirely for that
 task since it will always report a badness score of 0.
 
-Setting a adjust score value of +500, for example, is roughly equivalent to
+Setting an adjust score value of +500, for example, is roughly equivalent to
 allowing the remainder of tasks sharing the same system, cpuset, mempolicy, or
 memory controller resources to use at least 50% more memory.  A value of -500,
 on the other hand, would be roughly equivalent to discounting 50% of the task's
diff --git a/sys-utils/mount.8 b/sys-utils/mount.8
index 1a42a36e3..8ee0a03c5 100644
--- a/sys-utils/mount.8
+++ b/sys-utils/mount.8
@@ -1400,7 +1400,7 @@ independent of indices created in other instances of devpts.
 
 All mounts of devpts without this
 .B newinstance
-option share the same set of pty indices (i.e legacy mode).
+option share the same set of pty indices (i.e. legacy mode).
 Each mount of devpts with the
 .B newinstance
 option has a private set of pty indices.
@@ -1503,7 +1503,7 @@ normal check is too inflexible.  With this option you can relax it.
 .RE
 .TP
 .BI check= value
-Three different levels of pickyness can be chosen:
+Three different levels of pickiness can be chosen:
 .RS
 .TP
 .BR r [ elaxed ]
@@ -1714,7 +1714,7 @@ filesystem.)
 
 Normal
 .I iso9660
-filenames appear in a 8.3 format (i.e., DOS-like restrictions on filename
+filenames appear in an 8.3 format (i.e., DOS-like restrictions on filename
 length), and in addition all characters are in upper case.  Also there is
 no field for file ownership, protection, number of links, provision for
 block/character devices, etc.
diff --git a/sys-utils/readprofile.8 b/sys-utils/readprofile.8
index 9686380e0..a37aa0a91 100644
--- a/sys-utils/readprofile.8
+++ b/sys-utils/readprofile.8
@@ -111,7 +111,7 @@ Look at all the kernel information, with ram addresses:
    readprofile -av | less
 
 .fi
-Browse a `freezed' profile buffer for a non current kernel:
+Browse a `frozen' profile buffer for a non current kernel:
 .nf
    readprofile -p ~/profile.freeze -m /zImage.map.gz
 
@@ -123,7 +123,7 @@ Request profiling at 2kHz per CPU, and reset the profiling buffer:
 .SH BUGS
 .LP
 .B readprofile
-only works with an 1.3.x or newer kernel, because
+only works with a 1.3.x or newer kernel, because
 .I /proc/profile
 changed in the step from 1.2 to 1.3
 .LP
diff --git a/sys-utils/setarch.8 b/sys-utils/setarch.8
index d0fd5b945..efa3d5088 100644
--- a/sys-utils/setarch.8
+++ b/sys-utils/setarch.8
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ The default \fIprogram\fR is \fB/bin/sh\fR.
 .PP
 Since version 2.33 the
 .I arch
-comnand line argument is optional and
+command line argument is optional and
 .B setarch
 may be used to change personality flags (ADDR_LIMIT_*, SHORT_INODE, etc) without
 modification of the execution domain.
diff --git a/sys-utils/swapon.8 b/sys-utils/swapon.8
index 8398f1b35..510a15fd0 100644
--- a/sys-utils/swapon.8
+++ b/sys-utils/swapon.8
@@ -222,7 +222,7 @@ Swap over \fBNFS\fR may not work.
 .PP
 .B swapon
 automatically detects and rewrites a swap space signature with old software
-suspend data (e.g S1SUSPEND, S2SUSPEND, ...). The problem is that if we don't
+suspend data (e.g. S1SUSPEND, S2SUSPEND, ...). The problem is that if we don't
 do it, then we get data corruption the next time an attempt at unsuspending is
 made.
 
diff --git a/sys-utils/umount.8 b/sys-utils/umount.8
index eb2e65dd7..f94d2f41f 100644
--- a/sys-utils/umount.8
+++ b/sys-utils/umount.8
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ offending process could even be
 .B umount
 itself - it opens libc, and libc in its turn may open for example locale
 files.  A lazy unmount avoids this problem, but it may introduce another
-issues. See \fB\-\-lazy\fR description bellow.
+issues. See \fB\-\-lazy\fR description below.
 .SH OPTIONS
 .TP
 .BR \-a , " \-\-all"
diff --git a/text-utils/column.1 b/text-utils/column.1
index e81c8c1d6..e726151b6 100644
--- a/text-utils/column.1
+++ b/text-utils/column.1
@@ -105,7 +105,7 @@ hide all unnamed columns (see --table-columns).
 .IP "\fB\-O, \-\-table-order\fP \fIcolumns\fP"
 Specify columns order on output.
 .IP "\fB\-n, \-\-table-name\fP \fIname\fP"
-Specify the table name used for JSON output. The defaout is "table".
+Specify the table name used for JSON output. The default is "table".
 .IP "\fB\-r, \-\-tree\fP \fIcolumn\fP"
 Specify column to use tree-like output. Note that the circular dependencies and
 another anomalies in child and parent relation are silently ignored.