docs: fix typos in man pages

Addresses: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=664458
Addresses: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=664294
Addresses: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=664182
Signed-off-by: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>

diff --git a/mount/mount.8 b/mount/mount.8
index 0dd75aa000214c3c376090c5a4ac2bc32c92ea49..e260b8a6654183882503da98f828e5a8738ea7dd 100644 (file)
--- a/mount/mount.8
+++ b/mount/mount.8
@@ -971,7 +971,7 @@ This option implies the options
 .B remount
 Attempt to remount an already-mounted filesystem.  This is commonly
 used to change the mount flags for a filesystem, especially to make a
-readonly filesystem writeable. It does not change device or mount point.
+readonly filesystem writable. It does not change device or mount point.
 
 The remount functionality follows the standard way how the mount command works
 with options from fstab. It means the mount command doesn't read fstab (or
@@ -1670,7 +1670,7 @@ This option will fail with anything but a CDROM as underlying device.
 .TP
 .BI part= n
 Select partition number n from the device.
-Only makes sense for CDROMS.
+Only makes sense for CDROMs.
 Defaults to not parsing the partition table at all.
 .TP
 .B quiet
@@ -1722,7 +1722,7 @@ length), and in addition all characters are in upper case.  Also there is
 no field for file ownership, protection, number of links, provision for
 block/character devices, etc.
 
-Rock Ridge is an extension to iso9660 that provides all of these unix like
+Rock Ridge is an extension to iso9660 that provides all of these UNIX-like
 features.  Basically there are extensions to each directory record that
 supply all of the additional information, and when Rock Ridge is in use,
 the filesystem is indistinguishable from a normal UNIX filesystem (except
@@ -1857,7 +1857,7 @@ See mount options for fat.
 If the
 .I msdos
 filesystem detects an inconsistency, it reports an error and sets the file
-system read-only. The filesystem can be made writeable again by remounting
+system read-only. The filesystem can be made writable again by remounting
 it.
 
 .SH "Mount options for ncpfs"
@@ -1891,7 +1891,7 @@ and the current version of
 .BI iocharset= name
 Character set to use when returning file names.
 Unlike VFAT, NTFS suppresses names that contain
-unconvertible characters. Deprecated.
+nonconvertible characters. Deprecated.
 .\" since 2.5.11
 .TP
 .BI nls= name

diff --git a/partx/addpart.8 b/partx/addpart.8
index 231cbfafc83feeb3241f7cccbf8cbab555582ba1..1c92809806c2c01b6098d7bfb4f1f698be60b91a 100644 (file)
--- a/partx/addpart.8
+++ b/partx/addpart.8
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ simple wrapper around the "add partition" ioctl
 .B addpart
 is a program that informs the Linux kernel of new partition.
 
-This command doesn't manipulate with partitions on hard drive.
+This command doesn't manipulate partitions on hard drive.
 
 .SH PARAMETERS
 .TP

diff --git a/partx/delpart.8 b/partx/delpart.8
index 7dd9389415b15613d30ef7d8fba0944fada01f18..7f35fb9daf01a1cf73034d579f3295b85424eb5c 100644 (file)
--- a/partx/delpart.8
+++ b/partx/delpart.8
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ simple wrapper around the "del partition" ioctl
 .B delpart
 is a program that asks the Linux kernel to remove a partition.
 
-This command doesn't manipulate with partitions on hard drive.
+This command doesn't manipulate partitions on hard drive.
 
 .SH OPTIONS
 .TP