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From: Ondrej Oprala <ooprala@redhat.com>
To: util-linux@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 08/10] addpart: minor man page improvements
Date: Tue,  8 Apr 2014 09:48:47 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1396943329-22347-9-git-send-email-ooprala@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1396943329-22347-1-git-send-email-ooprala@redhat.com>

Signed-off-by: Ondrej Oprala <ooprala@redhat.com>
---
 disk-utils/addpart.8 | 8 ++++----
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/disk-utils/addpart.8 b/disk-utils/addpart.8
index 9dcd0a3..875ca9e 100644
--- a/disk-utils/addpart.8
+++ b/disk-utils/addpart.8
@@ -5,15 +5,15 @@
 .TH ADDPART 8 "January 2007" "util-linux" "System Administration"
 .SH NAME
 addpart \-
-simple wrapper around the "add partition" ioctl
+a simple wrapper around the "add partition" ioctl
 .SH SYNOPSIS
 .B addpart
 .I device partition start length
 .SH DESCRIPTION
 .B addpart
-is a program that informs the Linux kernel of new partition.
+is a program that informs the Linux kernel of a new partition.
 
-This command doesn't manipulate partitions on hard drive.
+This command doesn't manipulate partitions on the hard drive.
 
 .SH PARAMETERS
 .TP
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ Specify the disk device.
 Specify the partition number.
 .TP
 .I start
-Specify the begin of the partition (in 512-byte sectors).
+Specify the beginning of the partition (in 512-byte sectors).
 .TP
 .I length
 Specify the length of the partition (in 512-byte sectors).
-- 
1.8.5.1


  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-04-08  7:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-04-08  7:48 [PATCH 00/10] Man page corrections v1.0 Ondrej Oprala
2014-04-08  7:48 ` [PATCH 01/10] last: fix minor typos in the man page Ondrej Oprala
2014-04-08  7:48 ` [PATCH 02/10] runuser: " Ondrej Oprala
2014-04-08  7:48 ` [PATCH 03/10] su: " Ondrej Oprala
2014-04-08  7:48 ` [PATCH 04/10] sulogin: minor man page improvements Ondrej Oprala
2014-04-08  7:48 ` [PATCH 05/10] utmpdump: " Ondrej Oprala
2014-04-08  7:48 ` [PATCH 06/10] nologin: " Ondrej Oprala
2014-04-08  7:48 ` [PATCH 07/10] vipw: " Ondrej Oprala
2014-04-08  7:48 ` Ondrej Oprala [this message]
2014-04-08  7:48 ` [PATCH 09/10] cfdisk: " Ondrej Oprala
2014-04-08  7:48 ` [PATCH 10/10] delpart: " Ondrej Oprala
2014-04-14 11:46 ` [PATCH 00/10] Man page corrections v1.0 Karel Zak

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