Fix typos in error messages and documentation

Signed-off-by: Sebastian Rasmussen <sebras@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Reviewed-by: Andreas Dilger <adilger@dilger.ca>

24 files changed, 50 insertions, 50 deletions

diff --git a/debugfs/debugfs.8.in b/debugfs/debugfs.8.in
index 87d487e7..55abd718 100644
--- a/debugfs/debugfs.8.in
+++ b/debugfs/debugfs.8.in
@@ -226,7 +226,7 @@ Clear the contents of the inode
 .IR filespec .
 .TP
 .BI copy_inode " source_inode destination_inode"
-Copy the conents of the inode structure in
+Copy the contents of the inode structure in
 .I source_inode
 and use it to overwrite the inode structure at
 .IR destination_inode .
diff --git a/debugfs/htree.c b/debugfs/htree.c
index 54e55e20..ede1224e 100644
--- a/debugfs/htree.c
+++ b/debugfs/htree.c
@@ -339,7 +339,7 @@ void do_dx_hash(int argc, char *argv[])
 	err = ext2fs_dirhash(hash_version, argv[optind], strlen(argv[optind]),
 			     hash_seed, &hash, &minor_hash);
 	if (err) {
-		com_err(argv[0], err, "while caclulating hash");
+		com_err(argv[0], err, "while calculating hash");
 		return;
 	}
 	printf("Hash of %s is 0x%0x (minor 0x%0x)\n", argv[optind],
diff --git a/doc/libext2fs.texinfo b/doc/libext2fs.texinfo
index 8f046510..c645d82a 100644
--- a/doc/libext2fs.texinfo
+++ b/doc/libext2fs.texinfo
@@ -146,7 +146,7 @@ There are two functions which create a filesystem handle,
 @code{ext2fs_open} and @code{ext2fs_initialize}.  
 
 The filesystem can also be closed using @code{ext2fs_close}, and any
-changes to the superblock and group descripts can be written out to disk
+changes to the superblock and group descriptors can be written out to disk
 using @code{ext2fs_flush}.
 
 @menu
@@ -183,7 +183,7 @@ image.
 
 The @var{block_size} parameter specifies the block size used by the
 filesystem.  Normally this is determined automatically from the
-filesystem uperblock.  If @var{block_size} is non-zero, it must match
+filesystem superblock.  If @var{block_size} is non-zero, it must match
 the block size found in the superblock, or the error
 @code{EXT2_ET_UNEXPECTED_BLOCK_SIZE} will be returned.  The
 @var{block_size} parameter is also used to help fund the superblock when
@@ -625,7 +625,7 @@ The @var{flags} parameter controls how the iterator will function:
 @table @samp
 
 @item BLOCK_FLAG_HOLE
-This flag indiciates that the interator function should be called on
+This flag indicates that the interator function should be called on
 blocks where the block number is zero (also known as ``holes''.)  It is
 also known as BLOCK_FLAG_APPEND, since it is also used by functions
 such as ext2fs_expand_dir() to add a new block to an inode.
@@ -633,7 +633,7 @@ such as ext2fs_expand_dir() to add a new block to an inode.
 @item BLOCK_FLAG_DEPTH_TRAVERSE
 This flag indicates that the iterator function for the
 indirect, doubly indirect, etc. blocks should be called after all
-of the blocks containined in the indirect blocks are processed.
+of the blocks contained in the indirect blocks are processed.
 This is useful if you are going to be deallocating blocks from an
 inode.
 
@@ -1175,7 +1175,7 @@ in block @var{blk}.
 @deftypefun errcode_t ext2fs_set_dir_block (ext2_dblist @var{dblist}, ext2_ino_t @var{ino}, blk_t @var{blk}, int @var{blockcnt})
 
 Change an entry in the dblist data structure; this changes the location
-of block number @var{blockcnt} of directory indoe @var{ino} to be block
+of block number @var{blockcnt} of directory inode @var{ino} to be block
 @var{blk}. 
 @end deftypefun
 
@@ -1208,12 +1208,12 @@ the inode is referenced according to the inode structure.
 This abstraction is designed to be extremely efficient for storing this
 sort of information, by taking advantage of the following properties of
 inode counts, namely (1) inode counts are very often zero (because
-the inode is currrently not in use), and (2) many files have a inode
+the inode is currently not in use), and (2) many files have a inode
 count of 1 (because they are a file which has no additional hard links).
 
 @deftypefun errcode_t ext2fs_create_icount2 (ext2_filsys @var{fs}, int @var{flags}, int @var{size}, ext2_icount_t @var{hint}, ext2_icount_t *@var{ret})
 
-Creates an icount stucture for a filesystem @var{fs}, with initial space
+Creates an icount structure for a filesystem @var{fs}, with initial space
 for @var{size} inodes whose count is greater than 1.  The @var{flags}
 parameter is either 0 or @code{EXT2_ICOUNT_OPT_INCREMENT}, which
 indicates that icount structure should be able to increment inode counts
diff --git a/e2fsck/e2fsck.conf.5.in b/e2fsck/e2fsck.conf.5.in
index d8205bcf..a727932b 100644
--- a/e2fsck/e2fsck.conf.5.in
+++ b/e2fsck/e2fsck.conf.5.in
@@ -178,17 +178,17 @@ relation.
 This relation contains an alternate directory that will be used if the
 directory specified by
 .I log_dir
-is not available or is not writeable.
+is not available or is not writable.
 .TP
 .I log_dir_wait
 If this boolean relation is true, them if the directories specified by
 .I log_dir
 or
 .I log_dir_fallback
-are not available or are not yet writeable, e2fsck will save the output
+are not available or are not yet writable, e2fsck will save the output
 in a memory buffer, and a child process will periodically test to see if
 the log directory has become available after the boot sequence has
-mounted the requiste file system for reading/writing.  This implements the
+mounted the requested file system for reading/writing.  This implements the
 functionality provided by
 .BR logsave (8)
 for e2fsck log files.
@@ -413,7 +413,7 @@ The name of the user running e2fsck.
 .B %U
 This percent expression does not expand to anything, but it signals that
 any following date or time expressions should be expressed in UTC time
-instead of the local timzeone.
+instead of the local timezone.
 .TP
 .B %y
 The last two digits of the current year (00..99)
diff --git a/e2fsck/revoke.c b/e2fsck/revoke.c
index 64b897a7..f7254713 100644
--- a/e2fsck/revoke.c
+++ b/e2fsck/revoke.c
@@ -427,7 +427,7 @@ int journal_cancel_revoke(handle_t *handle, struct journal_head *jh)
 	int did_revoke = 0;	/* akpm: debug */
 	struct buffer_head *bh = jh2bh(jh);
 
-	jbd_debug(4, "journal_head %p, cancelling revoke\n", jh);
+	jbd_debug(4, "journal_head %p, canceling revoke\n", jh);
 
 	/* Is the existing Revoke bit valid?  If so, we trust it, and
 	 * only perform the full cancel if the revoke bit is set.  If
diff --git a/ext2ed/disk.c b/ext2ed/disk.c
index 5c243127..70ece943 100644
--- a/ext2ed/disk.c
+++ b/ext2ed/disk.c
@@ -86,7 +86,7 @@ If logging is enabled, we log the change before writing it to the device.
 	char temp [80];
 
 	if (!write_access) {
-		wprintw (command_win,"Error - Write access not aviable (use enablewrite)\n");
+		wprintw (command_win,"Error - Write access not available (use enablewrite)\n");
 		return (0);
 	}
 
diff --git a/ext2ed/doc/ext2ed-design.sgml b/ext2ed/doc/ext2ed-design.sgml
index ad2df960..7ea668b5 100644
--- a/ext2ed/doc/ext2ed-design.sgml
+++ b/ext2ed/doc/ext2ed-design.sgml
@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ subjects. I can think of two ways in which I could have made my project:
 <Para>
 	The "Engineer" way
 
-Learn the subject throughly before I get to the programming itself.
+Learn the subject thoroughly before I get to the programming itself.
 Then, I could easily see the entire picture and select the best
 course of action, taking all the factors into account.
 </Para>
@@ -94,7 +94,7 @@ course of action, taking all the factors into account.
 	The "Explorer - Progressive" way.
 
 Jump immediately into the cold water - Start programming and
-learning the material parallelly.
+learning the material in parallel.
 </Para>
 </ListItem>
 
@@ -418,7 +418,7 @@ superblock was set exactly to the above value.
 <Para>
 It seems that starting with the <Literal remap="tt">superblock</Literal> was a good bet - Just from
 the list of variables, one can learn a lot. I didn't understand all of them
-at the time, but it seemed that the following keywords were repeating themself
+at the time, but it seemed that the following keywords were repeating themselves
 in various variables:
 
 <ItemizedList>
@@ -710,8 +710,8 @@ int dispatch (char *command_line)
 <Title>Source files in EXT2ED</Title>
 
 <Para>
-The project was getting large enough to be splitted into several source
-files. I splitted the source as much as I could into self-contained
+The project was getting large enough to be split into several source
+files. I split the source as much as I could into self-contained
 source files. The source files consist of the following blocks:
 
 <ItemizedList>
@@ -1156,7 +1156,7 @@ according to the source division outlined above, in inode_com.c) will
 store the necessary information about the inode in a specific structure
 of type struct_file_info which will be available for use by the file_com.c
 functions. Only then it will set the type to file. This is also the reason
-that a direct asynchronic set of the object type to a file through a settype
+that a direct asynchronous set of the object type to a file through a settype
 command will fail - The above data structure will not be initialized
 properly because the user never was at the inode of the file. 
 
diff --git a/ext2ed/doc/ext2fs-overview.sgml b/ext2ed/doc/ext2fs-overview.sgml
index a6ebf5ab..1bf8c5f6 100644
--- a/ext2ed/doc/ext2fs-overview.sgml
+++ b/ext2ed/doc/ext2fs-overview.sgml
@@ -533,7 +533,7 @@ allocated blocks.
 </Para>
 
 <Para>
-It was found experimently that many of the files in the filesystem are
+It was found experimentally that many of the files in the filesystem are
 actually quite small. To take advantage of this effect, the kernel provides
 storage of up to 12 block numbers in the inode itself. Those blocks are
 called <Literal remap="tt">direct blocks</Literal>. The advantage is that once the kernel has the
@@ -692,7 +692,7 @@ options. They determine the type of the "file" to which the inode belongs:
 <Title>Time and date</Title>
 
 <Para>
-Linux records the last time in which various operations occured with the
+Linux records the last time in which various operations occurred with the
 file. The time and date are saved in the standard C library format - The
 number of seconds which passed since 00:00:00 GMT, January 1, 1970. The
 following times are recorded:
@@ -1087,7 +1087,7 @@ the length of the file name.
 <Para>
 The variable <Literal remap="tt">rec&lowbar;len</Literal> is provided because the directory entries are
 padded with zeroes so that the next entry will be in an offset which is
-a multiplition of 4. The resulting directory entry size is stored in
+a multiplication of 4. The resulting directory entry size is stored in
 <Literal remap="tt">rec&lowbar;len</Literal>. If the directory entry is the last in the block, it is
 padded with zeroes till the end of the block, and rec&lowbar;len is updated
 accordingly.
@@ -1402,7 +1402,7 @@ then zero s&lowbar;mnt&lowbar;count. <Literal remap="tt">s&lowbar;max&lowbar;mnt
 E2fsck also records the last time in which the file system was checked in
 the <Literal remap="tt">s&lowbar;lastcheck</Literal> variable. The user tunable parameter
 <Literal remap="tt">s&lowbar;checkinterval</Literal> will contain the number of seconds which are allowed
-to pass since <Literal remap="tt">s&lowbar;lastcheck</Literal> until a check is reforced. A value of
+to pass since <Literal remap="tt">s&lowbar;lastcheck</Literal> until a check is forced. A value of
 <Literal remap="tt">0</Literal> disables time-based check.
 </Para>
 
diff --git a/ext2ed/doc/user-guide.sgml b/ext2ed/doc/user-guide.sgml
index 42887eff..1e8f3cdf 100644
--- a/ext2ed/doc/user-guide.sgml
+++ b/ext2ed/doc/user-guide.sgml
@@ -506,8 +506,8 @@ itself the direct blocks, indirect blocks, ..., while still preserving the
 actual view of the exact block usage of the file.
 </Screen>
 
-The point is that the "tour" of the filesystem will now be synchronic rather
-than asynchronic - Each object has the "links" to pass between connected
+The point is that the "tour" of the filesystem will now be synchronous rather
+than asynchronous - Each object has the "links" to pass between connected
 logical structures, and special fine-tuned functions to deal with it.
 </Para>
 
@@ -855,7 +855,7 @@ The <Command>setdevice</Command> command is described at section <XRef LinkEnd="
 Syntax: setoffset [block || type] [+|-]offset
 </Screen>
 
-The <Command>setoffset</Command> command is used to move asynchronically inside the file
+The <Command>setoffset</Command> command is used to move asynchronously inside the file
 system. It is considered a low level command, and usually should not be used
 when editing an ext2 filesystem, simply because movement is better
 utilized through the specific ext2 commands.
diff --git a/ext2ed/ext2.descriptors b/ext2ed/ext2.descriptors
index bf927b02..4b9111bc 100644
--- a/ext2ed/ext2.descriptors
+++ b/ext2ed/ext2.descriptors
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ Most of this file is just copied from the ext2 main include file.
 My parser is very primitive - It only searches for the struct keywords,
 and uses the variables in there. The rest of the file is just ignored.
 
-You will find at the end a few additional types which are not aviable in
+You will find at the end a few additional types which are not available in
 the original include file, such as the types "file" and "dir". They have
 no variables, but are necessary due to the way ext2ed binds C commands
 to specific types.
diff --git a/ext2ed/general_com.c b/ext2ed/general_com.c
index c9b2ffc4..aa274e33 100644
--- a/ext2ed/general_com.c
+++ b/ext2ed/general_com.c
@@ -90,7 +90,7 @@ void help (char *command_line)
 	wprintw (show_pad,"EXT2ED ver %s (%s)\n",E2FSPROGS_VERSION, E2FSPROGS_DATE);
 	wprintw (show_pad,"Copyright (C) 1995 Gadi Oxman\n");
 	wprintw (show_pad,"Reviewed 2001 Christian Bac\n");
-	wprintw (show_pad,"Modified and enchanced by Theodore Ts'o, 2002\n");
+	wprintw (show_pad,"Modified and enhanced by Theodore Ts'o, 2002\n");
 	wprintw (show_pad,"EXT2ED is hereby placed under the terms of the GNU General Public License.\n\n");
 	wprintw (show_pad,"EXT2ED was programmed as a student project in the software laboratory\n");
 	wprintw (show_pad,"of the faculty of electrical engineering in the\n");
@@ -140,7 +140,7 @@ void detailed_help (char *text)
 		refresh_show_pad ();return;
 	}
 
-	wprintw (show_pad,"Error - Command %s not aviable now\n",text);
+	wprintw (show_pad,"Error - Command %s not available now\n",text);
 	refresh_show_pad ();return;
 }
 
diff --git a/ext2ed/init.c b/ext2ed/init.c
index 7d9b526f..718c0d08 100644
--- a/ext2ed/init.c
+++ b/ext2ed/init.c
@@ -80,8 +80,8 @@ void add_general_commands (void)
 	add_user_command (&general_commands,"help","EXT2ED help system",help);
 	add_user_command (&general_commands,"set","Changes a variable in the current object",set);
 	add_user_command (&general_commands,"setdevice","Selects the filesystem block device (e.g. /dev/hda1)",set_device);
-	add_user_command (&general_commands,"setoffset","Moves asynchronicly in the filesystem",set_offset);
-	add_user_command (&general_commands,"settype","Tells EXT2ED how to interpert the current object",set_type);
+	add_user_command (&general_commands,"setoffset","Moves asynchronously in the filesystem",set_offset);
+	add_user_command (&general_commands,"settype","Tells EXT2ED how to interpret the current object",set_type);
 	add_user_command (&general_commands,"show","Displays the current object",show);
 	add_user_command (&general_commands,"pgup","Scrolls data one page up",pgup);
 	add_user_command (&general_commands,"pgdn","Scrolls data one page down",pgdn);
@@ -316,7 +316,7 @@ Set specific type user commands.
 	}
 
 	if (strcmp ((ptr->name),"ext2_group_desc")==0) {
-		add_user_command (&ptr->type_commands,"next","Pass to the next block group decriptor",type_ext2_group_desc___next);
+		add_user_command (&ptr->type_commands,"next","Pass to the next block group descriptor",type_ext2_group_desc___next);
 		add_user_command (&ptr->type_commands,"prev","Pass to the previous group descriptor",type_ext2_group_desc___prev);
 		add_user_command (&ptr->type_commands,"entry","Pass to a specific group descriptor",type_ext2_group_desc___entry);
 		add_user_command (&ptr->type_commands,"show","Shows the current group descriptor",type_ext2_group_desc___show);
diff --git a/lib/blkid/libblkid.3.in b/lib/blkid/libblkid.3.in
index bd24cb1a..2fea3a9b 100644
--- a/lib/blkid/libblkid.3.in
+++ b/lib/blkid/libblkid.3.in
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ so the use of the cache file is
 in this situation.
 .SH AUTHOR
 .B libblkid
-was written by Andreas Dilger for the ext2 filesystem utilties, with input
+was written by Andreas Dilger for the ext2 filesystem utilities, with input
 from Ted Ts'o.  The library was subsequently heavily modified by Ted Ts'o.
 .SH FILES
 .TP
diff --git a/lib/e2p/e2p.pc.in b/lib/e2p/e2p.pc.in
index c171ae67..150b089a 100644
--- a/lib/e2p/e2p.pc.in
+++ b/lib/e2p/e2p.pc.in
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ libdir=@libdir@
 includedir=@includedir@
 
 Name: e2p
-Description: Ext2fs userpace programs utility library
+Description: Ext2fs userspace programs utility library
 Version: @E2FSPROGS_VERSION@
 Requires: 
 Cflags: -I${includedir}/e2p -I${includedir}
diff --git a/lib/et/com_err.texinfo b/lib/et/com_err.texinfo
index c9d3fcaf..3e7ae32c 100644
--- a/lib/et/com_err.texinfo
+++ b/lib/et/com_err.texinfo
@@ -394,7 +394,7 @@ any event, any invariant which the library assumes must be maintained.
 In general, it is not in the domain of non user-interface library
 routines to write error messages to the user's terminal, or halt the
 process.  Such forms of ``error handling'' should be reserved for
-failures of internal invariants and consistancy checks only, as it
+failures of internal invariants and consistency checks only, as it
 provides the user of the library no way to clean up for himself in the
 event of total failure.
 
@@ -441,7 +441,7 @@ available, try again later,'' or it may try a different server.
 
 Cleanup which is typically necessary may include, but not be limited
 to, freeing allocated memory which will not be needed any more,
-unlocking concurrancy locks, dropping reference counts, closing file
+unlocking concurrency locks, dropping reference counts, closing file
 descriptors, or otherwise undoing anything which the procedure did up
 to this point.  When there are a lot of things which can go wrong, it
 is generally good to write one block of error-handling code which is
diff --git a/lib/et/test_cases/heimdal2.c b/lib/et/test_cases/heimdal2.c
index a8d4c111..d2ad5726 100644
--- a/lib/et/test_cases/heimdal2.c
+++ b/lib/et/test_cases/heimdal2.c
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ static const char * const text[] = {
 	N_("Bad key supplied"),
 	N_("Can't encrypt data"),
 	N_("Cannot encode/decode authentication info"),
-	N_("Principal attemping change is in wrong realm"),
+	N_("Principal attempting change is in wrong realm"),
 	N_("Packet is too large"),
 	N_("Version number is incorrect"),
 	N_("Checksum does not match"),
diff --git a/lib/et/test_cases/heimdal2.et b/lib/et/test_cases/heimdal2.et
index 7a247c55..703600c5 100644
--- a/lib/et/test_cases/heimdal2.et
+++ b/lib/et/test_cases/heimdal2.et
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ ec KADM_NO_CRED,	"Unable to fetch credentials"
 ec KADM_BAD_KEY,	"Bad key supplied"
 ec KADM_NO_ENCRYPT,	"Can't encrypt data"
 ec KADM_NO_AUTH,	"Cannot encode/decode authentication info"
-ec KADM_WRONG_REALM,	"Principal attemping change is in wrong realm"
+ec KADM_WRONG_REALM,	"Principal attempting change is in wrong realm"
 ec KADM_NO_ROOM,	"Packet is too large"
 ec KADM_BAD_VER,	"Version number is incorrect"
 ec KADM_BAD_CHK,	"Checksum does not match"
diff --git a/lib/ext2fs/inline_data.c b/lib/ext2fs/inline_data.c
index c0fc4ed1..457300d9 100644
--- a/lib/ext2fs/inline_data.c
+++ b/lib/ext2fs/inline_data.c
@@ -613,7 +613,7 @@ static errcode_t file_test(ext2_filsys fs)
 	/* create a new file */
 	retval = ext2fs_new_inode(fs, 2, 010755, 0, &newfile);
 	if (retval) {
-		com_err("file_test", retval, "while allocaing a new inode");
+		com_err("file_test", retval, "while allocating a new inode");
 		return 1;
 	}
 
@@ -623,7 +623,7 @@ static errcode_t file_test(ext2_filsys fs)
 	inode.i_mode = LINUX_S_IFREG;
 	retval = ext2fs_write_new_inode(fs, newfile, &inode);
 	if (retval) {
-		com_err("file_test", retval, "while writting a new inode");
+		com_err("file_test", retval, "while writing a new inode");
 		return 1;
 	}
 
@@ -811,7 +811,7 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[])
 	retval = ext2fs_allocate_tables(fs);
 	if (retval) {
 		com_err("setup", retval,
-			"while allocating tables for test filesysmte");
+			"while allocating tables for test filesystem");
 		exit(1);
 	}
 
diff --git a/lib/uuid/uuid_compare.3.in b/lib/uuid/uuid_compare.3.in
index 4807f3a8..67bc9b9e 100644
--- a/lib/uuid/uuid_compare.3.in
+++ b/lib/uuid/uuid_compare.3.in
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ to each other.
 .SH RETURN VALUE
 Returns an integer less than, equal to, or greater than zero if
 .I uu1
-is found,  respectively, to be lexigraphically less than, equal, or
+is found,  respectively, to be lexicographical less than, equal, or
 greater than
 .IR uu2 .
 .SH AUTHOR
diff --git a/lib/uuid/uuid_generate.3.in b/lib/uuid/uuid_generate.3.in
index f44900cd..e6be9685 100644
--- a/lib/uuid/uuid_generate.3.in
+++ b/lib/uuid/uuid_generate.3.in
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ function forces the use of the all-random UUID format, even if
 a high-quality random number generator (i.e.,
 .IR /dev/urandom )
 is not available, in which case a pseudo-random
-generator will be subsituted.  Note that the use of a pseudo-random
+generator will be substituted.  Note that the use of a pseudo-random
 generator may compromise the uniqueness of UUID's
 generated in this fashion.
 .sp
@@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ function only uses this algorithm if a high-quality source of
 randomness is not available.
 .sp
 The UUID is 16 bytes (128 bits) long, which gives approximately 3.4x10^38
-unique values (there are approximately 10^80 elemntary particles in
+unique values (there are approximately 10^80 elementary particles in
 the universe according to Carl Sagan's
 .IR Cosmos ).
 The new UUID can reasonably be considered unique among all UUIDs created
diff --git a/misc/chattr.1.in b/misc/chattr.1.in
index 44ee3370..967b8088 100644
--- a/misc/chattr.1.in
+++ b/misc/chattr.1.in
@@ -156,7 +156,7 @@ although it can be displayed by
 .PP
 A directory with the 'P' attribute set will enforce a hierarchical
 structure for project id's.  This means that files and directory created
-in the directory will inhert the project id of the directory, rename
+in the directory will inherit the project id of the directory, rename
 operations are constrained so when a file or directory is moved into
 another directory, that the project id's much match.  In addition, a
 hard link to file can only be created when the project id for the file
diff --git a/misc/mke2fs.8.in b/misc/mke2fs.8.in
index dc86e67f..766bf529 100644
--- a/misc/mke2fs.8.in
+++ b/misc/mke2fs.8.in
@@ -433,7 +433,7 @@ be smaller than the blocksize of the filesystem, since in that case more
 inodes would be made than can ever be used.  Be warned that it is not
 possible to change this ratio on a filesystem after it is created, so be
 careful deciding the correct value for this parameter.  Note that resizing
-a filesystem changes the numer of inodes to maintain this ratio.
+a filesystem changes the number of inodes to maintain this ratio.
 .TP
 .BI \-I " inode-size"
 Specify the size of each inode in bytes.
diff --git a/misc/mke2fs.conf.5.in b/misc/mke2fs.conf.5.in
index a8517c39..21a0c882 100644
--- a/misc/mke2fs.conf.5.in
+++ b/misc/mke2fs.conf.5.in
@@ -384,7 +384,7 @@ This relation indicates whether file systems with the
 feature enabled should be created with 0, 1, or 2 backup superblocks.
 .TP
 .I packed_meta_blocks
-This boolean relation specifes whether the allocation bitmaps, inode
+This boolean relation specifies whether the allocation bitmaps, inode
 table, and journal should be located at the beginning of the file system.
 .TP
 .I inode_ratio
diff --git a/resize/resize2fs.8.in b/resize/resize2fs.8.in
index 76434d74..3f0674ce 100644
--- a/resize/resize2fs.8.in
+++ b/resize/resize2fs.8.in
@@ -143,7 +143,7 @@ operation during an offline resize, so that the user can keep track
 of what the program is doing.
 .TP
 .B \-P
-Print an extimate of the number of file system blocks in the file system
+Print an estimate of the number of file system blocks in the file system
 if it is shrunk using
 .BR resize2fs 's
 .B \-M