Many files:

  Fix minor typos and grammer oops found by Bill Hawes (whawes@star.net).

7 files changed, 64 insertions, 42 deletions

diff --git a/misc/ChangeLog b/misc/ChangeLog
index b839560c..c4599668 100644
--- a/misc/ChangeLog
+++ b/misc/ChangeLog
@@ -1,5 +1,9 @@
 Thu May  8 22:22:08 1997  Theodore Ts'o  <tytso@rsts-11.mit.edu>
 
+	* badblocks.8.in, chattr.1.in, dumpe2fs.8.in, fsck.8.in, 
+		mke2fs.8.in, tune2fs.8.in: Fix minor typos and grammer
+		oops found by Bill Hawes (whawes@star.net).
+
 	* mke2fs.c (test_disk): Pass the blocksize to the bad blocks
  		command so that all of the filesystem gets tested in the
  		case where the blocksize 2048 or 4096.
diff --git a/misc/badblocks.8.in b/misc/badblocks.8.in
index f5133188..88adb340 100644
--- a/misc/badblocks.8.in
+++ b/misc/badblocks.8.in
@@ -52,10 +52,10 @@ Never use the `-w' option on an device containing an existing file system.
 This option erases data!
 .SH AUTHOR
 .B badblocks
-has been written by Remy Card <card@masi.ibp.fr>, the developer and maintainer
+was written by Remy Card <card@masi.ibp.fr>, the developer and maintainer
 of the ext2 fs.
 .SH BUGS
-I had no chance to make reals tests of this program since I use IDE drives
+I had no chance to make real tests of this program since I use IDE drives,
 which remap bad blocks. I only made some tests on floppies.
 .SH AVAILABILITY
 .B badblocks
diff --git a/misc/chattr.1.in b/misc/chattr.1.in
index af9d6a03..aece86df 100644
--- a/misc/chattr.1.in
+++ b/misc/chattr.1.in
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ mode
 .I files...
 .SH DESCRIPTION
 .B chattr
-changes the files attributes on an second extended file system.
+changes the file attributes on a Linux second extended file system.
 .PP
 The format of a symbolic mode is +-=[ASacdisu].
 .PP
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ Verbosely describe changed attributes.
 Set the files version.
 .SH ATTRIBUTES
 When a file with the 'A' attribute set is modified, its atime record is
-not modified.  This avoid a certain amount of disk I/O for laptop
+not modified.  This avoids a certain amount of disk I/O for laptop
 systems.
 
 A file with the `a' attribute set can only be open in append mode for writing.
@@ -65,12 +65,12 @@ When a file with the `S' attribute set is modified,
 the changes are written synchronously on the disk; this is equivalent to
 the `sync' mount option applied to a subset of the files.
 
-When a file with the `u' attribute set is deleted, its contents is saved.
+When a file with the `u' attribute set is deleted, its contents are saved.
 This allows the user to ask for its undeletion.
 
 .SH AUTHOR
 .B chattr
-has been written by Remy Card <card@masi.ibp.fr>, the developer and maintainer
+was written by Remy Card <card@masi.ibp.fr>, the developer and maintainer
 of the ext2 fs.
 .SH BUGS AND LIMITATIONS
 As of ext2 fs 0.5a, the `c' and `u' attribute are not honoured by the kernel
diff --git a/misc/dumpe2fs.8.in b/misc/dumpe2fs.8.in
index 28fa320d..b9da72a7 100644
--- a/misc/dumpe2fs.8.in
+++ b/misc/dumpe2fs.8.in
@@ -30,13 +30,15 @@ program for the BSD Fast File System.
 print the blocks which are reserved as bad in the filesystem.
 .TP
 .I -V
-print the version number of dumpe2fs and exit.
+print the version number of 
+.B dumpe2fs
+and exit.
 .SH BUGS
 You need to know the physical filesystem structure to understand the
 output.
 .SH AUTHOR
 .B dumpe2fs 
-has been written by Remy Card <card@masi.ibp.fr>, the developer and maintainer
+was written by Remy Card <card@masi.ibp.fr>, the developer and maintainer
 of the ext2 fs.
 .SH AVAILABILITY
 .B dumpe2fs
diff --git a/misc/fsck.8.in b/misc/fsck.8.in
index a28f6dd4..58d23b98 100644
--- a/misc/fsck.8.in
+++ b/misc/fsck.8.in
@@ -26,11 +26,14 @@ fsck \- check and repair a Linux file system
 is used to check and optionally repair a Linux file system.  
 .I filesys
 is either the device name (e.g. /dev/hda1, /dev/sdb2) or the mount point
-(e.g. /, /usr, /home) for the file system.  If this fsck has several
-filesystems on different physical disk drives to check, this fsck will
-try to run them in parallel.  This reduces the total amount time it
-takes to check all of the filesystems, since fsck takes advantage of the
-parallelism of multiple disk spindles.
+(e.g. /, /usr, /home) for the file system.  If this invocation of 
+.B fsck 
+has several filesystems on different physical disk drives to check, then
+.B fsck 
+will try to run them in parallel.  This reduces the total amount time it
+takes to check all of the filesystems, since 
+.B fsck
+takes advantage of the parallelism of multiple disk spindles.
 .PP
 The exit code returned by
 .B fsck
@@ -90,17 +93,20 @@ When the
 .B -A
 flag is set, check the root filesystem in parallel with the other filesystems.
 This is not the safest thing in the world to do,
-since if the root filesystem is in doubt things like
-the e2fsck executable might be corrupted!  This option is mainly provided
+since if the root filesystem is in doubt things like the 
+.BR e2fsck (8) 
+executable might be corrupted!  This option is mainly provided
 for those sysadmins who don't want to repartition the root
 filesystem to be small and compact (which is really the right solution).
 .TP
 .B -s
-Serialize fsck operations.  This is a good idea if you checking multiple
-filesystems in and the checkers are in an interactive mode.  (Note:
-.B e2fsck
+Serialize 
+.B fsck 
+operations.  This is a good idea if you checking multiple
+filesystems and the checkers are in an interactive mode.  (Note:
+.BR e2fsck (8)
 runs in an interactive mode by default.  To make 
-.B e2fsck
+.BR e2fsck (8)
 run in a non-interactive mode, you must either specify the
 .B -p
 or
@@ -123,7 +129,7 @@ are checked.  If
 .I fstype
 is prefixed with 
 .B no
-only filesystems whose filesystem do not match
+then only filesystems whose type does not match
 .I fstype
 are checked.
 .sp
@@ -137,8 +143,7 @@ If the type can not be deduced,
 will use the type specified by the 
 .B \-t
 option if it specifies a unique filesystem type.  If this type is not
-available, the the default file system type
-(currently ext2) is used. 
+available, then the default file system type (currently ext2) is used. 
 .TP
 .B fs-options
 Any options which are not understood by 
@@ -150,15 +155,16 @@ file system-specific checker.
 .PP
 Currently, standardized file system-specific options are somewhat in
 flux.  Although not guaranteed, the following options are supported
-by most file system checkers.
+by most file system checkers:
 .TP
 .B -a
 Automatically repair the file system without any questions (use
 this option with caution).  Note that 
-.B e2fsck
+.BR e2fsck (8)
 supports 
 .B -a
-for backwards compatibility only.  This option is mapped to e2fsck's
+for backwards compatibility only.  This option is mapped to 
+.BR e2fsck 's
 .B -p
 option which is safe to use, unlike the 
 .B -a 
@@ -168,14 +174,16 @@ option that most file system checkers support.
 Interactively repair the filesystem (ask for confirmations).  Note: It
 is generally a bad idea to use this option if multiple fsck's are being
 run in parallel.  Also note that this is 
-.B e2fsck
+.BR e2fsck 's
 default behavior; it supports this option for backwards compatibility
 reasons only.
 .SH AUTHOR
 Theodore Ts'o (tytso@mit.edu)
 .PP
 The manual page was shamelessly adapted from David Engel and Fred van
-Kempen's generic fsck front end program, which was in turn shamelessly
+Kempen's generic 
+.B fsck
+front end program, which was in turn shamelessly
 adapted from Remy Card's version for the ext2 file system.
 .SH FILES
 .IR /etc/fstab .
diff --git a/misc/mke2fs.8.in b/misc/mke2fs.8.in
index de08f440..9384c0a7 100644
--- a/misc/mke2fs.8.in
+++ b/misc/mke2fs.8.in
@@ -104,7 +104,7 @@ must be at least 1024.
 .TP
 .I -l filename
 Read the bad blocks list from
-.I filename
+.I filename.
 \.
 .TP
 .I -m reserved-blocks-percentage
@@ -118,10 +118,14 @@ defaults to 5%.
 .I -o
 Manually override the default value of the "creator os" field of the 
 filesystem.  Normally the creator field is set by default to the native OS
-of the mke2fs executable.
+of the
+.B mke2fs
+executable.
 .TP
 .I -q
-Quiet execution.  Useful if mke2fs is run in a script.
+Quiet execution.  Useful if 
+.B mke2fs
+is run in a script.
 .TP
 .I -s sparse-super-flag
 If sparse-super-flag is 1, then turn on the sparse superblock flag.  
@@ -136,7 +140,9 @@ doing!
 Verbose execution.
 .TP
 .I -F
-Force mke2fs to run, even if the specified device is not a 
+Force 
+.B mke2fs
+to run, even if the specified device is not a 
 block special device.
 .TP
 .I -L
@@ -161,7 +167,9 @@ which takes as its argument the number of blocks in a RAID stripe.
 .I -S
 Write superblock and group descriptors only.  This is useful if all of
 the superblock and backup superblocks are corrupted, and a last-ditch
-recovery method is desired.  It causes mke2fs to reinitialize the
+recovery method is desired.  It causes 
+.B mke2fs
+to reinitialize the 
 superblock and group descriptors, while not touching the inode table
 and the block and inode bitmaps.  The
 .B e2fsck
diff --git a/misc/tune2fs.8.in b/misc/tune2fs.8.in
index e65f3b53..96139e06 100644
--- a/misc/tune2fs.8.in
+++ b/misc/tune2fs.8.in
@@ -62,23 +62,23 @@ device
 .BI tune2fs
 adjusts tunable filesystem parameters on a Linux second extended filesystem.
 .PP
-.B Never use tune2fs on a read/write mounted filesystem to change parameters!
+.B Never use tune2fs to change parameters of a read/write mounted filesystem! 
 .PP
 .SH OPTIONS
 .TP
 .I -c max-mount-counts
 adjust the maximal mounts count between two filesystem checks.
 .TP
-.I -e errors-behavior
+.I -e error-behavior
 change the behavior of the kernel code when errors are detected.
-.I errors-behavior
-can be one of the followings:
+.I error-behavior
+can be one of the following:
 .br
 \	continue\	\	Continue normal execution.
 .br
 \	remount-ro\	Remount the filesystem read-only.
 .br
-\	panic\	\	Causes a kernel panic.
+\	panic\	\	Cause a kernel panic.
 .TP
 .I -g group
 set the user group which can benefit from the reserved blocks.
@@ -101,7 +101,7 @@ adjust the reserved blocks percentage on the given device.
 adjust the reserved blocks count on the given device.
 .TP
 .I -s sparse_super_flag
-sets and resets the sparse_superblock flag.  The sparse_superblock feature
+set or reset the sparse_superblock flag.  The sparse_superblock feature
 saves space on really big filesystems.
 .B Warning:
 The Linux 2.0 kernel does not properly support this feature.  Neither do
@@ -120,7 +120,7 @@ set the number of times the filesystem has been mounted.
 set the volume label of the filesystem.
 .TP
 .I -M last-mounted-directory
-set the last-mounted direcctory for the filesystem.
+set the last-mounted directory for the filesystem.
 .TP
 .I -U UUID
 set the UUID of the filesystem.  A sample UUID looks like this: 
@@ -129,13 +129,13 @@ which will set the filesystem UUID to the null UUID.  The uuid may also
 be "random", which will generate a new random UUID for the filesystem.
 .PP
 .SH BUGS
-We didn't find any bugs yet. Perhaps there are bugs but it's unlikely.
+We haven't found any bugs yet. Perhaps there are bugs but it's unlikely.
 .PP
 .SH WARNING
-.B Use this utility on your own risk. You're modifying filesystems.
+.B Use this utility at your own risk. You're modifying a filesystem!
 .SH AUTHOR
 .B tune2fs 
-has been written by Remy Card <card@masi.ibp.fr>, the developer and maintainer
+was written by Remy Card <card@masi.ibp.fr>, the developer and maintainer
 of the ext2 fs.
 .br
 .B tune2fs