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Diffstat (limited to 'sys-utils/mount.8')
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1 files changed, 14 insertions, 14 deletions
diff --git a/sys-utils/mount.8 b/sys-utils/mount.8 index efa1ae8dd..d2fe2a640 100644 --- a/sys-utils/mount.8 +++ b/sys-utils/mount.8 @@ -262,7 +262,7 @@ you have to use: and then the mount options from command line will be appended to the list of options from .IR /etc/fstab . -The usual behaviour is that the last option wins if there is more duplicated +The usual behavior is that the last option wins if there is more duplicated options. When the @@ -1081,7 +1081,7 @@ but still allow userspace to override it. For more details about the default system mount options see /proc/mounts. .TP .B nostrictatime -Use the kernel's default behaviour for inode access time updates. +Use the kernel's default behavior for inode access time updates. .TP .B suid Allow set-user-identifier or set-group-identifier bits to take @@ -1365,15 +1365,15 @@ Support POSIX Access Control Lists (or not). .\" requires CONFIG_EXT2_FS_POSIX_ACL .TP .BR bsddf | minixdf -Set the behaviour for the +Set the behavior for the .I statfs system call. The .B minixdf -behaviour is to return in the +behavior is to return in the .I f_blocks field the total number of blocks of the filesystem, while the .B bsddf -behaviour (which is the default) is to subtract the overhead blocks +behavior (which is the default) is to subtract the overhead blocks used by the ext2 filesystem and not available for file storage. Thus .sp 1 % mount /k \-o minixdf; df /k; umount /k @@ -1411,7 +1411,7 @@ don't have to be supported if ext4 kernel driver is used for ext2 and ext3 files Print debugging info upon each (re)mount. .TP .BR errors= { continue | remount-ro | panic } -Define the behaviour when an error is encountered. +Define the behavior when an error is encountered. (Either ignore errors and just mark the filesystem erroneous and continue, or remount the filesystem read-only, or panic and halt the system.) The default is set in the filesystem superblock, and can be @@ -2091,7 +2091,7 @@ a volume where the option was previously specified in order to restore normal behavior. .TP .BR errors= { continue | remount-ro | panic } -Define the behaviour when an error is encountered. +Define the behavior when an error is encountered. (Either ignore errors and just mark the filesystem erroneous and continue, or remount the filesystem read-only, or panic and halt the system.) .TP @@ -2540,7 +2540,7 @@ The same filesystem type is also used by Mac OS X. .TP .BI onerror= value -Set behaviour on error: +Set behavior on error: .RS .TP .B panic @@ -2594,7 +2594,7 @@ disabled. .TP .BR shortname= { lower | win95 | winnt | mixed } -Defines the behaviour for creation and display of filenames which fit into +Defines the behavior for creation and display of filenames which fit into 8.3 characters. If a long name for a file exists, it will always be preferred display. There are four modes: : @@ -2644,12 +2644,12 @@ doing delayed allocation writeout. Valid values for this option are page size (typically 4KiB) through to 1GiB, inclusive, in power-of-2 increments. .sp -The default behaviour is for dynamic end-of-file +The default behavior is for dynamic end-of-file preallocation size, which uses a set of heuristics to optimise the preallocation size based on the current allocation patterns within the file and the access patterns to the file. Specifying a fixed allocsize value turns off -the dynamic behaviour. +the dynamic behavior. .TP .BR attr2 | noattr2 The options enable/disable an "opportunistic" improvement to @@ -2659,8 +2659,8 @@ attr2 is selected (either when setting or removing extended attributes) the on-disk superblock feature bit field will be updated to reflect this format being in use. .sp -The default behaviour is determined by the on-disk feature -bit indicating that attr2 behaviour is active. If either +The default behavior is determined by the on-disk feature +bit indicating that attr2 behavior is active. If either mount option it set, then that becomes the new default used by the filesystem. .sp @@ -2732,7 +2732,7 @@ If "largeio" specified, a filesystem that was created with a "swidth" specified will return the "swidth" value (in bytes) in st_blksize. If the filesystem does not have a "swidth" specified but does specify an "allocsize" then "allocsize" -(in bytes) will be returned instead. Otherwise the behaviour +(in bytes) will be returned instead. Otherwise the behavior is the same as if "nolargeio" was specified. .TP .B logbufs=value |