*: spelling and grammar fixes

Documentation/howto-pull-request.txt

@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ Setup
 1. Find a git server that can be reached from anywhere in internet
 anonymously.  Github is for example a popular choice.
 
-2. Create your own util-linux contributor repository, and push a upstream
+2. Create your own util-linux contributor repository, and push an upstream
 clone to there.
 
 3. In these instructions the upstream remote repository is called

Documentation/release-schedule.txt

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 Release schedule
 ----------------
 
-The util-linux package uses the <major>.<minor>.<maintenaince> version
+The util-linux package uses the <major>.<minor>.<maintenance> version
 numbering scheme.  Since the major version is pretty much fixed, any
 release means an increment of the minor number.  The minor version is
 incremented roughly twice per year.  The easiest way to estimate when

configure.ac

@@ -2440,7 +2440,7 @@ AC_ARG_ENABLE([sulogin-emergency-mount],
 
 AS_IF([test "x$enable_sulogin_emergency_mount" = xyes], [
   AC_DEFINE([USE_SULOGIN_EMERGENCY_MOUNT], [1],
-	    [Should sulogin use a emergency mount of /dev and /proc?])
+	    [Should sulogin use an emergency mount of /dev and /proc?])
 ])
 
 

disk-utils/fdformat.c

@@ -222,7 +222,7 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv)
 	if (stat(argv[0], &st) < 0)
 		err(EXIT_FAILURE, _("stat of %s failed"), argv[0]);
 	if (!S_ISBLK(st.st_mode))
-		/* do not test major - perhaps this was an USB floppy */
+		/* do not test major - perhaps this was a USB floppy */
 		errx(EXIT_FAILURE, _("%s: not a block device"), argv[0]);
 	ctrl = open_blkdev_or_file(&st, argv[0], O_RDWR);
 	if (ctrl < 0)

libblkid/samples/mkfs.c

@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[])
 					"%s superblock", devname, type);
 
 		if (!blkid_probe_lookup_value(pr, "PTTYPE", &type, NULL))
-			errx(EXIT_FAILURE, "%s: appears to contain an partition "
+			errx(EXIT_FAILURE, "%s: appears to contain a partition "
 					"table (%s)", devname, type);
 	}
 

login-utils/sulogin.c

@@ -851,7 +851,7 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv)
 	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&consoles);
 
 	/*
-	 * If we are init we need to set up a own session.
+	 * If we are init we need to set up an own session.
 	 */
 	if ((pid = getpid()) == 1) {
 		setsid();

misc-utils/uuidd.c

@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@
 
 #include "nls.h"
 
-/* Protocol segment lenghts */
+/* Protocol segment lengths */
 typedef uint8_t	uuidd_prot_op_t;	/* client operation field */
 typedef int32_t	uuidd_prot_num_t;	/* number of requested uuids */
 

sys-utils/flock.1

@@ -131,7 +131,7 @@ exit status values for everything, except when using either of the options
 .B \-n
 or
 .B \-w
-which report a failure to acquire the lock with a exit status given by the
+which report a failure to acquire the lock with an exit status given by the
 .B \-E
 option, or 1 by default.  The exit status given by
 .B \-E has to be in the range of 0 to 255.

sys-utils/mount.c

@@ -331,7 +331,7 @@ static void selinux_warning(struct libmnt_context *cxt, const char *tgt)
 		if (!selinux_file_context_cmp(raw, def))
 			printf(_(
 	"mount: %s does not contain SELinux labels.\n"
-	"       You just mounted an file system that supports labels which does not\n"
+	"       You just mounted a file system that supports labels which does not\n"
 	"       contain labels, onto an SELinux box. It is likely that confined\n"
 	"       applications will generate AVC messages and not be allowed access to\n"
 	"       this file system.  For more details see restorecon(8) and mount(8).\n"),
@@ -1007,4 +1007,3 @@ done:
 	env_list_free(envs_removed);
 	return rc;
 }
-