docs: Fix various typos

Signed-off-by: Sebastian Rasmussen <sebras@gmail.com>

diff --git a/disk-utils/blockdev.8 b/disk-utils/blockdev.8
index 7274e629f5a5f89adebc35acaf43651a23d1cfd6..e823385d5a2d14ef84b7030e6675377e466c8c85 100644 (file)
--- 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 df7d0959c1c0a2803238cbc9c54e2a69869248b9..2b3efef5c56fd28a557542c24f27cc12a8ad5a05 100644 (file)
--- 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 0c13a48850aa8805657adf496def9d7ae44a0961..a5c4d26577f8c9bb726c9051f709494f6c9ff9f7 100644 (file)
--- 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 b36cd7835df505a6ed36792cf542550bcaa1a25a..0962ce26f735ad5b76e979d0aa4f71a73e149159 100644 (file)
--- 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 58ca91cbb48b8a77e262e4ca5720627f22111d68..c04a2c8430a57cd93af8dc42d32848c98cdd2ae3 100644 (file)
--- 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 d271a47985b6e49c2e1233c16b1a3e1d17495dff..abf15306bd0c4dafc0a190ce62a79514ba2e37c8 100644 (file)
--- 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 b3f3d3fb3294080e0752c37fbc50e6eee9229ad1..8f9b71099e37340909e0a9f74128789cfeeab989 100644 (file)
--- 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 b199ff8a59e7a1205486dfe99f423294dd2cc955..3f09b1900562c2a201940751403126dd717b9565 100644 (file)
--- 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 d3dc20e0d57284100d788039b7db40655b4748b3..f50d8509cd53e238aeb135b3a04c16624faea7de 100644 (file)
--- 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 e30af9897999df6dcf39d81deb968af16ca675fd..e24eac97ee8f4165fbcb8548db0c776749377962 100644 (file)
--- 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 b4420c9789aa0f6a9e8162f5a54bc7c02e3fd26c..68bc3f4e0220901ac6e9e32777643662d9128948 100644 (file)
--- 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 fd8cfc609f735506469d89eb74be57a6ebeafdba..9fe22f18966bf09821f54ad186ec9eee3198608d 100644 (file)
--- 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 eb0dd988fa562c4babe6668eca95cc25c5d775af..0c04a65abfa802ae74869f19e552362a65e44ed0 100644 (file)
--- 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 f64be776b945266e98a9cb125a2e3132c7caac9d..eca2b656defdb17cb5ceaf7dc56822af2945ba6a 100644 (file)
--- 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 af8433d741debc2c9eedc1a36dce1653e54a46b7..25a17ea468e55ed0b7d845d34f5d34dccbfdf0d6 100644 (file)
--- 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 ad6c8e3e4a3499b82c4fc93349414f9966d9d9aa..d67adf43ca287d3888ea9b7f8930da93d1054615 100644 (file)
--- 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.