mainly just spelling and typos

13 files changed, 19 insertions, 17 deletions

diff --git a/sys/lib/dist/ndb/local b/sys/lib/dist/ndb/local
index 7c8126ea5..5a5292b58 100644
--- a/sys/lib/dist/ndb/local
+++ b/sys/lib/dist/ndb/local
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ dom=
 	ns=M.ROOT-SERVERS.NET
 
 #
-#  because the public demands the name localsource
+#  because the public demands the name localhost
 #
 ip=127.0.0.1 sys=localhost dom=localhost
 
diff --git a/sys/man/1/grep b/sys/man/1/grep
index d326d1ca0..16b5e9c75 100644
--- a/sys/man/1/grep
+++ b/sys/man/1/grep
@@ -111,7 +111,7 @@ invokes
 .I grep
 with
 .B -n
-(plus aditional flags, if provided)
+(plus additional flags, if provided)
 and forces tagging of output lines by file name. If no files
 are listed, it recursively searches the current directory for
 all files matching
diff --git a/sys/man/1/ps b/sys/man/1/ps
index 13d2919f9..839ca322f 100644
--- a/sys/man/1/ps
+++ b/sys/man/1/ps
@@ -109,8 +109,8 @@ flag causes
 to print the arguments for the process.  Newlines in arguments will be translated to spaces for display.
 .PP
 .I Pstree
-prints the processes as a tree in a two colum layout where
-the first colum being the process id and second column
+prints the processes as a tree in a two-column layout where
+the first column being the process id and second column
 the program name and arguments indented and prefixed with
 line drawing runes to reflect the nesting in the hierarchy.
 .SH FILES
diff --git a/sys/man/2/graphics b/sys/man/2/graphics
index 9456cd9a1..f6ec0b686 100644
--- a/sys/man/2/graphics
+++ b/sys/man/2/graphics
@@ -469,7 +469,7 @@ overwrites the global variables
 .BR screen ,
 a pointer to the
 .B Image
-defining the window (or the overall display, if no window system is running); and
+defining the window (or the overall display, if no window system is running), and
 .BR _screen ,
 a pointer to the
 .B Screen
diff --git a/sys/man/3/audio b/sys/man/3/audio
index d269d23c8..e65def43f 100644
--- a/sys/man/3/audio
+++ b/sys/man/3/audio
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ followed by the preferred write unit (in bytes) and the string
 .B buffered
 followed by the number of bytes currently queued for output. The
 numbers are decimal and right-padded with spaces to fit.
-After this fixed header, the contents of the file is driver specific.
+After this fixed header, the content of the file is driver-specific.
 .PP
 .B Volume
 is the control file associated with the audio port.  Each source has
diff --git a/sys/man/4/bzfs b/sys/man/4/bzfs
index 9f9f31005..efc9706e1 100644
--- a/sys/man/4/bzfs
+++ b/sys/man/4/bzfs
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ option.
 The
 .B -m
 option sets the mountpoint
-.I mptp
+.I mtpt
 (default /root).
 If the
 .B -s
diff --git a/sys/man/4/cifs b/sys/man/4/cifs
index 3ba63ebfd..19f3b2e96 100644
--- a/sys/man/4/cifs
+++ b/sys/man/4/cifs
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ cifs - Microsoft™ Windows network filesystem client
 .SH DESCRIPTION
 .I Cifs
 translates between Microsoft's file-sharing protocol
-(a.k.a. CIFS or SMB) and 9P, allowing Plan9 clients to mount file systems
+(a.k.a. CIFS or SMB) and 9P, allowing Plan 9 clients to mount file systems
 (shares or trees in MS terminology) published by such servers.
 .PP
 The root of the mounted directory contains one subdirectory per share,
@@ -204,7 +204,7 @@ Alternatively the
 .B -a
 option can be used to force
 .I cifs
-to use one of the less secure authentication mechnisms.
+to use one of the less secure authentication mechanisms.
 .LP
 Windows 7 has dropped support for RAP, which is used to generate
 the synthetic files offered by
diff --git a/sys/man/4/tftpfs b/sys/man/4/tftpfs
index 71cfb1ed6..c01e8e0d2 100644
--- a/sys/man/4/tftpfs
+++ b/sys/man/4/tftpfs
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ is mostly used by bootloaders to download kernel images for
 network bootstrap (see
 .IR dhcpd (8)).
 As the protocol has no way of distinguishing files from
-directories, the final path segment needs to conain a dot
+directories, the final path segment needs to contain a dot
 (.) character to be recognized as a file. To access files that
 have no dot in the filename, a trailing dot has to be added
 and will be stripped before it is passed to the server.
diff --git a/sys/man/6/style b/sys/man/6/style
index b0ae34d4a..e266055c4 100644
--- a/sys/man/6/style
+++ b/sys/man/6/style
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ avoid
 .IP •
 no tabs expanded to spaces.
 .IP •
-surround a binary operator (particular a low precedence one) with spaces;
+surround a binary operator (particularly a low precedence one) with spaces;
 don't try to write the most compact code possible
 but rather the most readable.
 .IP •
diff --git a/sys/man/8/ipserv b/sys/man/8/ipserv
index db934e481..c6127edd5 100644
--- a/sys/man/8/ipserv
+++ b/sys/man/8/ipserv
@@ -169,7 +169,7 @@ the namespace for anonymous users (default
 .PP
 .I Socksd
 is a SOCKS4 and SOCKS5
-proxy server allowing non Plan9 machines to access the
+proxy server allowing non-Plan 9 machines to access the
 outside network.
 The net to use for outgoing calls can be specified
 with the
diff --git a/sys/man/8/plan9.ini b/sys/man/8/plan9.ini
index a3bcc09ac..8be2e4f47 100644
--- a/sys/man/8/plan9.ini
+++ b/sys/man/8/plan9.ini
@@ -514,7 +514,7 @@ argument is omited or zero, then the ramdisk will be allocated
 from the top of physical memory.
 .SS AUDIO
 .SS \fLaudio\fIX\fL=\fIvalue\fP
-This defines a sound interface. PCI based audio devices such as
+This defines a sound interface. PCI-based audio devices such as
 Intel HD audio or AC97 are autodetected and do not require any settings.
 .PP
 Known types are
@@ -778,7 +778,7 @@ is not specified, then the authentication server is used.
 This variable is automatically generated by the boot loader (see
 .IR 9boot (8))
 by doing a BIOS E820 memory scan while still in realmode and
-passed to the kernel. The format is a unordered list of 
+passed to the kernel. The format is an unordered list of
 decimal region
 .I type
 and hexadecimal 64-bit
diff --git a/sys/man/8/prep b/sys/man/8/prep
index 6059c089a..2706db32e 100644
--- a/sys/man/8/prep
+++ b/sys/man/8/prep
@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ Partitions of type
 .B 0x39
 are Plan 9 partitions.
 EFI systems use GUID partition table (GPT) format where partition types
-are identied by a 128-bit long identifiers. The randomly
+are identified by a 128-bit long identifiers. The randomly
 generated GUID
 .B C91818F9-8025-47AF-89D2-F030D7000C2C
 is used to identify the Plan 9 partition type in this scheme.
@@ -158,7 +158,9 @@ A
 worm filesystem.
 .TP
 .B fs
-A kfs file system.
+An
+.IR hjfs (4)
+file system.
 .TP
 .B fscfg
 A one-sector partition used to store an
diff --git a/sys/src/cmd/disk/prep/edisk.c b/sys/src/cmd/disk/prep/edisk.c
index 9fee86c02..ded979a93 100644
--- a/sys/src/cmd/disk/prep/edisk.c
+++ b/sys/src/cmd/disk/prep/edisk.c
@@ -142,7 +142,7 @@ static Type	types[256] = {
 {UU(0x6A82CB45,0x1DD2,0x11B2,0x99A6,0x080020736631ULL), "solarisboot", "Solaris Boot"},
 {UU(0x6A85CF4D,0x1DD2,0x11B2,0x99A6,0x080020736631ULL), "solarisroot", "Solaris Root"},
 {UU(0x6A87C46F,0x1DD2,0x11B2,0x99A6,0x080020736631ULL), "solarisswap", "Solaris Swap"},
-{UU(0x6A8B642B,0x1DD2,0x11B2,0x99A6,0x080020736631ULL), "solarisbakup", "Solaris Backup"},
+{UU(0x6A8B642B,0x1DD2,0x11B2,0x99A6,0x080020736631ULL), "solarisbackup", "Solaris Backup"},
 {UU(0x6A898CC3,0x1DD2,0x11B2,0x99A6,0x080020736631ULL), "solarisusr", "Solaris /usr"},
 {UU(0x6A8EF2E9,0x1DD2,0x11B2,0x99A6,0x080020736631ULL), "solarisvar", "Solaris /var"},
 {UU(0x6A90BA39,0x1DD2,0x11B2,0x99A6,0x080020736631ULL), "solarishome", "Solaris /home"},