textual: grammarize and harmonize the stat error message

The message "stat failed %s" seems to say that stat() failed to
do something, or failed to pass a test, but of course it means
that the statting of something failed.  So say so.  Also make
two very similar messages equal to this one.

Signed-off-by: Benno Schulenberg <bensberg@justemail.net>

7 files changed, 9 insertions, 9 deletions

diff --git a/disk-utils/fdformat.c b/disk-utils/fdformat.c
index ad9a86367..e7d43da8f 100644
--- a/disk-utils/fdformat.c
+++ b/disk-utils/fdformat.c
@@ -217,7 +217,7 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv)
 	if (argc < 1)
 		usage(stderr);
 	if (stat(argv[0], &st) < 0)
-		err(EXIT_FAILURE, _("stat failed %s"), argv[0]);
+		err(EXIT_FAILURE, _("stat of %s failed"), argv[0]);
 	if (!S_ISBLK(st.st_mode))
 		/* do not test major - perhaps this was an USB floppy */
 		errx(EXIT_FAILURE, _("%s: not a block device"), argv[0]);
diff --git a/disk-utils/fsck.cramfs.c b/disk-utils/fsck.cramfs.c
index 419b9acb5..0a375f12c 100644
--- a/disk-utils/fsck.cramfs.c
+++ b/disk-utils/fsck.cramfs.c
@@ -143,7 +143,7 @@ static void test_super(int *start, size_t * length)
 
 	/* find the physical size of the file or block device */
 	if (stat(filename, &st) < 0)
-		err(FSCK_EX_ERROR, _("stat failed %s"), filename);
+		err(FSCK_EX_ERROR, _("stat of %s failed"), filename);
 
 	fd = open(filename, O_RDONLY);
 	if (fd < 0)
diff --git a/disk-utils/mkfs.bfs.c b/disk-utils/mkfs.bfs.c
index 98e4b050c..2a223646e 100644
--- a/disk-utils/mkfs.bfs.c
+++ b/disk-utils/mkfs.bfs.c
@@ -182,7 +182,7 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv)
 	device = argv[optind++];
 
 	if (stat(device, &statbuf) < 0)
-		err(EXIT_FAILURE, _("stat failed %s"), device);
+		err(EXIT_FAILURE, _("stat of %s failed"), device);
 
 	if (!S_ISBLK(statbuf.st_mode))
 		errx(EXIT_FAILURE, _("%s is not a block special device"), device);
diff --git a/disk-utils/mkfs.cramfs.c b/disk-utils/mkfs.cramfs.c
index 509b50b9d..5b64ad80a 100644
--- a/disk-utils/mkfs.cramfs.c
+++ b/disk-utils/mkfs.cramfs.c
@@ -328,7 +328,7 @@ static unsigned int parse_directory(struct entry *root_entry, const char *name,
 		memcpy(endpath, dirent->d_name, namelen + 1);
 
 		if (lstat(path, &st) < 0) {
-			warn(_("stat failed %s"), endpath);
+			warn(_("stat of %s failed"), endpath);
 			warn_skip = 1;
 			continue;
 		}
@@ -748,7 +748,7 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv)
 		case 'i':
 			opt_image = optarg;
 			if (lstat(opt_image, &st) < 0)
-				err(MKFS_EX_USAGE, _("stat failed %s"), opt_image);
+				err(MKFS_EX_USAGE, _("stat of %s failed"), opt_image);
 			image_length = st.st_size; /* may be padded later */
 			fslen_ub += (image_length + 3); /* 3 is for padding */
 			break;
@@ -785,7 +785,7 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv)
 		blksize = getpagesize();
 
 	if (stat(dirname, &st) < 0)
-		err(MKFS_EX_USAGE, _("stat failed %s"), dirname);
+		err(MKFS_EX_USAGE, _("stat of %s failed"), dirname);
 	fd = open(outfile, O_WRONLY | O_CREAT | O_TRUNC, 0666);
 	if (fd < 0)
 		err(MKFS_EX_USAGE, _("cannot open %s"), outfile);
diff --git a/disk-utils/mkfs.minix.c b/disk-utils/mkfs.minix.c
index 81b7ae337..c84aed2b3 100644
--- a/disk-utils/mkfs.minix.c
+++ b/disk-utils/mkfs.minix.c
@@ -747,7 +747,7 @@ int main(int argc, char ** argv) {
 		strcpy(tmp+2, ".badblocks");
 	}
 	if (stat(device_name, &statbuf) < 0)
-		err(MKFS_EX_ERROR, _("stat failed %s"), device_name);
+		err(MKFS_EX_ERROR, _("stat of %s failed"), device_name);
 	if (S_ISBLK(statbuf.st_mode))
 		DEV = open(device_name,O_RDWR | O_EXCL);
 	else
diff --git a/disk-utils/mkswap.c b/disk-utils/mkswap.c
index b22c73fff..c7166f731 100644
--- a/disk-utils/mkswap.c
+++ b/disk-utils/mkswap.c
@@ -239,7 +239,7 @@ static void open_device(struct mkswap_control *ctl)
 	assert(ctl->devname);
 
 	if (stat(ctl->devname, &ctl->devstat) < 0)
-		err(EXIT_FAILURE, _("stat failed %s"), ctl->devname);
+		err(EXIT_FAILURE, _("stat of %s failed"), ctl->devname);
 
 	if (S_ISBLK(ctl->devstat.st_mode))
 		ctl->fd = open(ctl->devname, O_RDWR | O_EXCL);
diff --git a/disk-utils/partx.c b/disk-utils/partx.c
index 1ba531590..f21c388a7 100644
--- a/disk-utils/partx.c
+++ b/disk-utils/partx.c
@@ -888,7 +888,7 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv)
 		device = argv[optind];
 
 		if (stat(device, &sb))
-			err(EXIT_FAILURE, _("stat failed %s"), device);
+			err(EXIT_FAILURE, _("stat of %s failed"), device);
 
 		part_devno = sb.st_rdev;