From e59845e9515906efa2121fc0b475a3b629c0804b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Volker Lanz Date: Fri, 8 Jan 2010 18:52:19 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] some small corrections svn path=/trunk/extragear/sysadmin/doc/partitionmanager/; revision=1071789 --- doc/appendix.docbook | 6 +++--- doc/faq.docbook | 6 +++--- doc/glossary.docbook | 4 ++-- doc/referencemanual.docbook | 6 +++--- doc/resizehowto.docbook | 2 +- doc/usermanual.docbook | 2 +- 6 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-) diff --git a/doc/appendix.docbook b/doc/appendix.docbook index 5027ce7..199b8b0 100644 --- a/doc/appendix.docbook +++ b/doc/appendix.docbook @@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ - For a large part of its basic functionality &partman; relies on libparted. To generate UUIDs for copied file systems, it uses libuuid, which is part of e2fsprogs. Both of these are required to build or run &partman;. + For a large part of its basic functionality &partman; relies on libparted. To generate UUIDs for copied file systems, it uses libuuid, which is part of e2fsprogs. It also uses the libblkid library from the util-linux-ng project to obtain information about partitions and file systems. All of these are required to build or run &partman;. @@ -98,13 +98,13 @@ - &swapoff;: Deactivates swap file systems. Part of the util-linux utility suite that can be downloaded from . + &swapoff;: Deactivates swap file systems. Part of the util-linux-ng utility suite that can be downloaded from . - &swapon;: Activates swap file systems. Part of the util-linux utility suite that can be downloaded from . + &swapon;: Activates swap file systems. Part of the util-linux-ng utility suite that can be downloaded from . diff --git a/doc/faq.docbook b/doc/faq.docbook index 9103fd0..bade706 100644 --- a/doc/faq.docbook +++ b/doc/faq.docbook @@ -95,7 +95,7 @@ - This is a problem of the e2resize command and the underlying ext2/3 file system. If a file system is nearly full, e2resize cannot make it any smaller even though that should be possible from the number of free sectors left. &partman; can unfortunately not know beforehand if e2resize will abort with this error for a given file system or not. If it happens nothing will be done at all and your data will not be negatively affected. + This is a problem of the e2resize command and the underlying ext2/3/4 file system. If a file system is nearly full, e2resize cannot make it any smaller even though that should be possible from the number of free sectors left. &partman; can unfortunately not know beforehand if e2resize will abort with this error for a given file system or not. If it happens nothing will be done at all and your data will not be negatively affected. There is no real workaround for this problem right now. @@ -131,7 +131,7 @@ - This seems to happen if you have a floppy drive configured in your computer's BIOS settings but have not actually connected one. Please check your BIOS settings and disable any floppy drives configured there to see if this makes the problem go away. + This happens if you have a floppy drive configured in your computer's BIOS settings but have not actually connected one. If you do not have a floppy drive check your BIOS settings and disable any floppy drives configured there to see if this makes the problem go away. @@ -141,7 +141,7 @@ - LibParted, a backend library &partman; uses, has problems with systems where the Linux Device Mapper is used in a way it doesn't understand. Unfortunately it reacts to some of these situations with segmentation faults, i.e. crashes. &partman; therefore tries to avoid these situations by using alternative backends. If it cannot do that, however, and has to rely on LibParted, it will print a message like the one mentioned and nevertheless try its best. + LibParted, a backend library &partman; uses, has problems with systems where the Linux Device Mapper is used in a way it doesn't understand. Unfortunately it reacts to some of these situations with segmentation faults, i.e. crashes. &partman; therefore tries to avoid these situations by using an alternative way to scan your computer for disks. If it cannot do that, however, and therefore has to rely on LibParted, it will print a message like the one mentioned. If the scanning for disks works, you can safely disregard the message. diff --git a/doc/glossary.docbook b/doc/glossary.docbook index 0ae388d..7637d3e 100644 --- a/doc/glossary.docbook +++ b/doc/glossary.docbook @@ -87,7 +87,7 @@ File System Label - A title of a file system. Some file systems (among them ext2/3, FAT16/32 and NTFS) support setting a label for the file system so it can be identified in tools like &partman; or other applications. + A title of a file system. Some file systems (among them ext2/3/4, FAT16/32 and NTFS) support setting a label for the file system so it can be identified in tools like &partman; or other applications. @@ -167,7 +167,7 @@ Partition - A section of a hard disk device that can hold a file system or other partitions. Without at least one valid partition, a device can not be used. + A section of a hard disk device that can hold a file system or other partitions. Without at least one valid partition, a disk can not be used. diff --git a/doc/referencemanual.docbook b/doc/referencemanual.docbook index dcff9b5..8aab61f 100644 --- a/doc/referencemanual.docbook +++ b/doc/referencemanual.docbook @@ -164,7 +164,7 @@ - The blue check marks mean supported, the red crosses mean not supported. Some combinations are never supported, for example checking a linuxswap file system, because they are inherently impossible. Others cannot be supported because the external tools lack the functionality. This is for instance the case with reading or writing labels for FAT file systems. + The blue check marks mean supported, the red crosses mean not supported. Some combinations are never supported, for example checking a linuxswap file system, because they are inherently impossible. Others cannot be supported because the external tools lack the functionality. This is for instance the case with writing labels for FAT file systems. If you have installed new tools while &partman; is running click on Rescan Support to force a recheck of installed file system support tools. @@ -273,7 +273,7 @@ Deletes a partition: This command deletes the currently selected partition. - This command is only enabled if a partition is selected that is not currently mounted. For an extended partition, it is only enabled if none of the logicals in the extended partition are mounted. + This command is only enabled if a partition is selected that is not currently mounted. For an extended partition, it is only enabled if it does not contain any logical partitions. Warning: Possible loss of data @@ -408,7 +408,7 @@ What is displayed and what can be modified in this dialog depends on the type of partition, the type of the file system on the partition and on the partition being currently mounted or not. - Not all file systems, for example, support setting a label (and while the FAT file systems do, &partman; currently has no support for setting the label on FAT file systems). It is also generally not possible to modify any properties if the partition is mounted. + Not all file systems, for example, support setting a label. It is also generally not possible to modify any properties if the partition is mounted. This is a list of all partition and file system properties that can in general be modified in this dialog: diff --git a/doc/resizehowto.docbook b/doc/resizehowto.docbook index 6b8ea87..ea895f8 100644 --- a/doc/resizehowto.docbook +++ b/doc/resizehowto.docbook @@ -162,7 +162,7 @@ - Always save the detailed report as HTML when executing the operations fails with errors or warnings for later reference. You might also want to include it in a bug report you submit to &partman;'s authors. + Always save the detailed report as HTML when executing the operations fails with errors or warnings for later reference. You might also want to include it in a bug report you submit to the &kde; bug tracking system at bugs.kde.org. diff --git a/doc/usermanual.docbook b/doc/usermanual.docbook index f9964f7..ba93988 100644 --- a/doc/usermanual.docbook +++ b/doc/usermanual.docbook @@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ Pending Operations Panel: This panel lists all operations that will be executed once you choose . - In the screenshot above, one operation is pending: If the user applies the operations now, the ext2 file system on /dev/sdb3 will be checked for errors and, if required, repaired. + In the screenshot above, one operation is pending: If the user applies the operations now, the file system on /dev/sdb3 will be checked for errors and, if required, repaired.