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Date:      Thu, 23 Jun 2011 05:55:19 +1000 (EST)
From:      Bruce Evans <brde@optusnet.com.au>
To:        Edward Tomasz Napierala <trasz@freebsd.org>
Cc:        svn-src-head@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r223429 - head/sbin/growfs
Message-ID:  <20110623054328.V1770@besplex.bde.org>
In-Reply-To: <201106221759.p5MHxrDx060648@svn.freebsd.org>
References:  <201106221759.p5MHxrDx060648@svn.freebsd.org>

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On Wed, 22 Jun 2011, Edward Tomasz Napierala wrote:

> Log:
>  Cosmetic fixes; mostly s/file system/filesystem/g and removing weird indent
>  from messages.

The first part seems backwards.  It undoes the 2002 change that does
s/filesystem/file system/g, except the 2002 change was not restricted
to growfs.

'file system' seems best English in most contexts, but not all, so
such changes should not be done mechanically.  'filesystem' might be
best German or Danish.  I like to use 'file system' for individual
file systems, but `filesystem' for things like the handler of a file
system.  But I don't like renaming things and wouldn't touch this :-).

> Modified: head/sbin/growfs/growfs.8
> ==============================================================================
> --- head/sbin/growfs/growfs.8	Wed Jun 22 17:55:16 2011	(r223428)
> +++ head/sbin/growfs/growfs.8	Wed Jun 22 17:59:53 2011	(r223429)
> @@ -37,12 +37,12 @@
> .\" $TSHeader: src/sbin/growfs/growfs.8,v 1.3 2000/12/12 19:31:00 tomsoft Exp $
> .\" $FreeBSD$
> .\"
> -.Dd May 8, 2011
> +.Dd June 22, 2011
> .Dt GROWFS 8
> .Os
> .Sh NAME
> .Nm growfs
> -.Nd grow size of an existing UFS file system
> +.Nd expand an existing UFS filesystem

Also, UFS doesn't exist.  See ffs(7), the fastfs paper in /usr/share/doc,
and ufs(nonexistent).

I would use 'file system' here since it is an individual file system
being expanded, and 'filesystem' for the ffs filesystem implementation.

Bruce



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