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-rw-r--r--disk-utils/blockdev.82
-rw-r--r--disk-utils/fsck.84
-rw-r--r--disk-utils/sfdisk.82
-rw-r--r--libblkid/docs/libblkid-docs.xml6
-rw-r--r--libblkid/libblkid.32
-rw-r--r--libfdisk/docs/libfdisk-docs.xml2
-rw-r--r--login-utils/login.12
-rw-r--r--misc-utils/findmnt.82
-rw-r--r--misc-utils/kill.12
-rw-r--r--misc-utils/logger.16
-rw-r--r--sys-utils/ipcrm.12
-rw-r--r--sys-utils/lsns.82
-rw-r--r--sys-utils/mount.88
-rw-r--r--sys-utils/swapon.82
-rw-r--r--text-utils/hexdump.14
-rw-r--r--text-utils/pg.12
16 files changed, 25 insertions, 25 deletions
diff --git a/disk-utils/blockdev.8 b/disk-utils/blockdev.8
index 7274e629f..e823385d5 100644
--- a/disk-utils/blockdev.8
+++ b/disk-utils/blockdev.8
@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ Print device size in bytes.
.IP "\fB\-\-getsize\fP"
Print device size (32-bit!) in sectors. Deprecated in favor of the \-\-getsz option.
.IP "\fB\-\-getss\fP"
-Print sectorsize in bytes \(en usually 512.
+Print sector size in bytes \(en usually 512.
.IP "\fB\-\-getsz\fP"
Get size in 512-byte sectors.
.IP "\fB\-\-rereadpt\fP"
diff --git a/disk-utils/fsck.8 b/disk-utils/fsck.8
index df7d0959c..2b3efef5c 100644
--- a/disk-utils/fsck.8
+++ b/disk-utils/fsck.8
@@ -113,7 +113,7 @@ example:
GUI front-ends may specify a file descriptor
.IR fd ,
in which case the progress bar information will be sent to that file descriptor
-in a machine parseable format. For example:
+in a machine parsable format. For example:
/dev/sda1 0 92828 4.002804 2.677592 0.86186
.TP
@@ -238,7 +238,7 @@ multiple filesystem checks on the same physical disk.
.B fsck
does not check stacked devices (RAIDs, dm-crypt, \&...\&) in parallel with any other
device. See below for FSCK_FORCE_ALL_PARALLEL setting. The /sys filesystem is
-used to detemine dependencies between devices.
+used to determine dependencies between devices.
.sp
Hence, a very common configuration in
.I /etc/fstab
diff --git a/disk-utils/sfdisk.8 b/disk-utils/sfdisk.8
index 0c13a4885..a5c4d2657 100644
--- a/disk-utils/sfdisk.8
+++ b/disk-utils/sfdisk.8
@@ -346,7 +346,7 @@ loaders and for other operating systems.
.B Named-fields format
.RS
-This format is more readable, robust, extendible and allows to specify additional
+This format is more readable, robust, extensible and allows to specify additional
information (e.g. a UUID). It is recommended to use this format to keep your scripts
more readable.
.RS
diff --git a/libblkid/docs/libblkid-docs.xml b/libblkid/docs/libblkid-docs.xml
index b36cd7835..0962ce26f 100644
--- a/libblkid/docs/libblkid-docs.xml
+++ b/libblkid/docs/libblkid-docs.xml
@@ -26,13 +26,13 @@ UUID= tags instead of hard-coding specific block device names into
configuration files.
</para>
<para>
-The libblkid librray
-was written by Andreas Dilger for the ext2 filesystem utilties, with input
+The libblkid library
+was written by Andreas Dilger for the ext2 filesystem utilities, with input
from Ted Ts'o. The library was subsequently heavily modified by Ted Ts'o.
</para>
<para>
The low-level probing code, topology and partitions support was written
-by Karel Zak. Currently, the library is mainatned by Karel Zak.
+by Karel Zak. Currently, the library is maintained by Karel Zak.
</para>
<para>
The library is part of the util-linux package since version 2.15 and is
diff --git a/libblkid/libblkid.3 b/libblkid/libblkid.3
index 58ca91cbb..c04a2c843 100644
--- a/libblkid/libblkid.3
+++ b/libblkid/libblkid.3
@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ details about the config file see
man page.
.SH AUTHOR
.B libblkid
-was written by Andreas Dilger for the ext2 filesystem utilties, with input
+was written by Andreas Dilger for the ext2 filesystem utilities, with input
from Ted Ts'o. The library was subsequently heavily modified by Ted Ts'o.
The low-level probing code was rewritten by Karel Zak.
diff --git a/libfdisk/docs/libfdisk-docs.xml b/libfdisk/docs/libfdisk-docs.xml
index d271a4798..abf15306b 100644
--- a/libfdisk/docs/libfdisk-docs.xml
+++ b/libfdisk/docs/libfdisk-docs.xml
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ available from ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/.
<xi:include href="xml/script.xml"/>
</part>
<part>
- <title>Partitining</title>
+ <title>Partitioning</title>
<xi:include href="xml/label.xml"/>
<xi:include href="xml/partition.xml"/>
<xi:include href="xml/table.xml"/>
diff --git a/login-utils/login.1 b/login-utils/login.1
index b3f3d3fb3..8f9b71099 100644
--- a/login-utils/login.1
+++ b/login-utils/login.1
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ is used when signing onto a system. If no argument is given,
.B login
prompts for the username.
.PP
-The user is then prompted for a password, where approprate. Echoing
+The user is then prompted for a password, where appropriate. Echoing
is disabled to prevent revealing the password. Only a small number
of password failures are permitted before
.B login
diff --git a/misc-utils/findmnt.8 b/misc-utils/findmnt.8
index b199ff8a5..3f09b1900 100644
--- a/misc-utils/findmnt.8
+++ b/misc-utils/findmnt.8
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ findmnt \- find a filesystem
.IR mountpoint
.SH DESCRIPTION
.B findmnt
-will list all mounted filesytems or search for a filesystem. The
+will list all mounted filesystems or search for a filesystem. The
.B \%findmnt
command is able to search in
.IR /etc/fstab ,
diff --git a/misc-utils/kill.1 b/misc-utils/kill.1
index d3dc20e0d..f50d8509c 100644
--- a/misc-utils/kill.1
+++ b/misc-utils/kill.1
@@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ Similar to \fB\-l\fR, but it will print signal names and their corresponding
numbers.
.TP
\fB\-a\fR, \fB\-\-all\fR
-Do not restrict the commandname-to-pid conversion to processes with the same
+Do not restrict the command-name-to-pid conversion to processes with the same
uid as the present process.
.TP
\fB\-p\fR, \fB\-\-pid\fR
diff --git a/misc-utils/logger.1 b/misc-utils/logger.1
index e30af9897..e24eac97e 100644
--- a/misc-utils/logger.1
+++ b/misc-utils/logger.1
@@ -119,7 +119,7 @@ Write to the specified remote syslog \fIserver\fR
instead of to the system log socket. Unless
\fB\-\-udp\fR or \fB\-\-tcp\fR
is specified, \fBlogger\fR will first try to use UDP,
-but if thist fails a TCP connection is attempted.
+but if this fails a TCP connection is attempted.
.TP
.BR \-\-no\-act
Causes everything to be done except for writing the log message to the system
@@ -203,7 +203,7 @@ These element IDs may be specified without the \fB@\fIdigits\fR suffix.
.TP
.BR "\-\-sd\-param " \fIname ="\fIvalue\fB"
-Specifies a structured data element paramameter, a name and value pair.
+Specifies a structured data element parameter, a name and value pair.
The option has to be used after \fB\-\-sd\-id\fR and may be specified more
than once for the same element. Note that the quotation marks around
\fIvalue\fR are required and must be escaped on the command line.
@@ -252,7 +252,7 @@ that is identical with messaging using
.BR openlog (3)
system call. The
.BR logger (1)
-before version 2.26 used openlog, and hence was inable to detected loss of
+before version 2.26 used openlog, and hence was unable to detected loss of
messages sent to Unix sockets.
.IP
The default mode is \fBauto\fR. When errors are not enabled lost messages are
diff --git a/sys-utils/ipcrm.1 b/sys-utils/ipcrm.1
index b4420c978..68bc3f4e0 100644
--- a/sys-utils/ipcrm.1
+++ b/sys-utils/ipcrm.1
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ ipcrm \- remove certain IPC resources
.IR id ...
.SH DESCRIPTION
.B ipcrm
-removes System V interprocess communication (IPC) objects
+removes System V inter-process communication (IPC) objects
and associated data structures from the system.
In order to delete such objects, you must be superuser, or
the creator or owner of the object.
diff --git a/sys-utils/lsns.8 b/sys-utils/lsns.8
index fd8cfc609..9fe22f189 100644
--- a/sys-utils/lsns.8
+++ b/sys-utils/lsns.8
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ The default list of columns may be extended if \fIlist\fP is
specified in the format \fB+\fIlist\fP (e.g. \fBlsns \-o +PATH\fP).
.TP
.BR \-p , " \-\-task " \fIpid\fP
-Display only the namepsaces held by the process with this \fIpid\fR.
+Display only the namespaces held by the process with this \fIpid\fR.
.TP
.BR \-r , " \-\-raw"
Use the raw output format.
diff --git a/sys-utils/mount.8 b/sys-utils/mount.8
index eb0dd988f..0c04a65ab 100644
--- a/sys-utils/mount.8
+++ b/sys-utils/mount.8
@@ -1372,7 +1372,7 @@ has gone wrong.
.BR ssd | nossd | ssd_spread
Options to control ssd allocation schemes. By default, BTRFS will
enable or disable ssd allocation heuristics depending on whether a
-rotational or nonrotational disk is in use. The \fBssd\fR and
+rotational or non-rotational disk is in use. The \fBssd\fR and
\fBnossd\fR options can override this autodetection.
The \fBssd_spread\fR mount option attempts to allocate into big chunks
@@ -1923,7 +1923,7 @@ normal check is too inflexible. With this option you can relax it.
.RE
.TP
.BI check= value
-Three different levels of pickiness can be chosen:
+Three different levels of pickyness can be chosen:
.RS
.TP
.BR r [ elaxed ]
@@ -2029,13 +2029,13 @@ spurious
errors.
.BR nostale_ro :
-This option bases the inode number and filehandle
+This option bases the inode number and file handle
on the on-disk location of a file in the FAT directory entry.
This ensures that
.B ESTALE
will not be returned after a file is
evicted from the inode cache. However, it means that operations
-such as rename, create and unlink could cause filehandles that
+such as rename, create and unlink could cause file handles that
previously pointed at one file to point at a different file,
potentially causing data corruption. For this reason, this
option also mounts the filesystem readonly.
diff --git a/sys-utils/swapon.8 b/sys-utils/swapon.8
index f64be776b..eca2b656d 100644
--- a/sys-utils/swapon.8
+++ b/sys-utils/swapon.8
@@ -87,7 +87,7 @@ available swap discard policies:
to perform a single-time discard operation for the whole swap area at swapon;
or
.BI \-\-discard=pages
-to asynchronously discard freed swap pages before they are avaliable for reuse.
+to asynchronously discard freed swap pages before they are available for reuse.
If no policy is selected, the default behavior is to enable both discard types.
The
.I /etc/fstab
diff --git a/text-utils/hexdump.1 b/text-utils/hexdump.1
index af8433d74..25a17ea46 100644
--- a/text-utils/hexdump.1
+++ b/text-utils/hexdump.1
@@ -225,13 +225,13 @@ conversion string except that it is only performed once, when all of the
input data has been processed.
.TP
.B \&_c
-Output characters in the default character set. Nonprinting characters are
+Output characters in the default character set. Non-printing characters are
displayed in three-character, zero-padded octal, except for those
representable by standard escape notation (see above), which are displayed as
two-character strings.
.TP
.B \&_p
-Output characters in the default character set. Nonprinting characters are
+Output characters in the default character set. Non-printing characters are
displayed as a single
.RB ' \&. '.
.TP
diff --git a/text-utils/pg.1 b/text-utils/pg.1
index ad6c8e3e4..d67adf43c 100644
--- a/text-utils/pg.1
+++ b/text-utils/pg.1
@@ -88,7 +88,7 @@ mode,
if the terminfo entry for the terminal provides this capability.
.TP
.BR \-V , " \-\-version"
-Disaplay version information and exit.
+Display version information and exit.
.TP
.BR \-h , " \-\-help"
Display help text and exit.