Hyphens and Other Manpage Typography, 1/4:

From: Peter Samuelson <peter@p12n.org>

 do not hyphenate terms:
  "override", "therein", "overwrite", "superblock format".

Signed-Off-By: Peter Samuelson <peter@p12n.org>

diff --git a/md.4 b/md.4
index 436f24e4ba1930855c9b25bbd29870fee5ff63c2..9838816a422564b568a49e2846be1f30e832349f 100644 (file)
--- a/md.4
+++ b/md.4
@@ -326,7 +326,7 @@ undetectably corrupted.  The 2.4 md driver
 .B does not
 alert the operator to this condition.  The 2.6 md driver will fail to
 start an array in this condition without manual intervention, though
-this behaviour can be over-ridden by a kernel parameter.
+this behaviour can be overridden by a kernel parameter.
 
 .SS RECOVERY
 
@@ -427,7 +427,7 @@ As of Linux 2.6.17, md can reshape a raid5 array to have more
 devices.  Other possibilities may follow in future kernels.
 
 During any stripe process there is a 'critical section' during which
-live data is being over-written on disk.  For the operation of
+live data is being overwritten on disk.  For the operation of
 increasing the number of drives in a raid5, this critical section
 covers the first few stripes (the number being the product of the old
 and new number of devices).  After this critical section is passed,

diff --git a/mdadm.8 b/mdadm.8
index 715921cbb98df11465f70c5439e2072ec9343ddc..0f278ac00765ac6389b7c8f1cf3524802503a3c6 100644 (file)
--- a/mdadm.8
+++ b/mdadm.8
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ Linux Software Raid.
 .SH DESCRIPTION
 RAID devices are virtual devices created from two or more
 real block devices. This allows multiple devices (typically disk
-drives or partitions there-of) to be combined into a single device to
+drives or partitions thereof) to be combined into a single device to
 hold (for example) a single filesystem.
 Some RAID levels include redundancy and so can survive some degree of
 device failure.
@@ -310,7 +310,7 @@ on the device, either at the end (for 1.0), at the start (for 1.1) or
 
 .TP
 .B --homehost=
-This will over-ride any
+This will override any
 .B HOMEHOST
 setting in the config file and provides the identify of the host which
 should be considered the home for any arrays.
@@ -597,7 +597,7 @@ If
 .I --scan
 is also given, then any
 .I auto=
-entries in the config file will over-ride the
+entries in the config file will override the
 .I --auto
 instruction given on the command line.
 
@@ -934,9 +934,9 @@ mark array as readwrite.
 .TP
 .B --zero-superblock
 If the device contains a valid md superblock, the block is
-over-written with zeros.  With
+overwritten with zeros.  With
 --force
-the block where the superblock would be is over-written even if it
+the block where the superblock would be is overwritten even if it
 doesn't appear to be valid.
 
 .TP
@@ -1279,7 +1279,7 @@ When creating a RAID5 array,
 will automatically create a degraded array with an extra spare drive.
 This is because building the spare into a degraded array is in general faster than resyncing
 the parity on a non-degraded, but not clean, array.  This feature can
-be over-ridden with the
+be overridden with the
 .I --force
 option.
 

diff --git a/mdadm.conf.5 b/mdadm.conf.5
index f2cb35f4b045e960df42007617260de6ef6ca90f..2b9995ba261b76a845535bdf2fbf4ac938c50834 100644 (file)
--- a/mdadm.conf.5
+++ b/mdadm.conf.5
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ This will cause
 .I mdadm
 to read
 .I /proc/partitions
-and include all devices and partitions found there-in.
+and include all devices and partitions found therein.
 .I mdadm
 does not use the names from
 .I /proc/partitions
@@ -103,7 +103,7 @@ The value should be a simple textual name as was given to
 .I mdadm
 when the array was created.  This must match the name stored in the
 superblock on a device for that device to be included in the array.
-Not all superblock-formats support names.
+Not all superblock formats support names.
 .TP
 .B super-minor=
 The value is an integer which indicates the minor number that was