diff --git a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/geom/chapter.sgml b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/geom/chapter.sgml
index 51c7dd5c48..86388a1fcb 100644
--- a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/geom/chapter.sgml
+++ b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/geom/chapter.sgml
@@ -706,11 +706,10 @@ ufsid/486b6fc16926168e     N/A  ad4s1f</screen>
       <primary>Journaling</primary>
     </indexterm>
 
-    <para>With the release of &os;&nbsp;7.0, the long awaited feature
-      of <acronym>UFS</acronym> journals has been implemented.  The
-      implementation itself is provided through the
-      <acronym>GEOM</acronym> subsystem and is easily configured
-      via the &man.gjournal.8; utility.</para>
+    <para>With the release of &os; 7.0, the long awaited feature
+      of journals has been implemented.  The implementation itself is
+      provided through the <acronym>GEOM</acronym> subsystem and is
+      easily configured via the &man.gjournal.8; utility.</para>
 
     <para>What is journaling?  Journaling capability stores a log of
       file system transactions, i.e.: changes that make up a complete
@@ -733,7 +732,7 @@ ufsid/486b6fc16926168e     N/A  ad4s1f</screen>
 
     <para>To enable support for <command>gjournal</command>, the
       &os; kernel must have the following option - which is the
-      default on 7.X systems:</para>
+      default on &os; 7.0 and later systems:</para>
 
     <programlisting>options	UFS_GJOURNAL</programlisting>
 
@@ -756,7 +755,7 @@ ufsid/486b6fc16926168e     N/A  ad4s1f</screen>
       disk:</para>
 
     <screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>gjournal load</userinput>
-      &prompt.root; <userinput>gjournal label /dev/da4</userinput></screen>
+&prompt.root; <userinput>gjournal label /dev/da4</userinput></screen>
 
     <para>At this point, there should be a
       <devicename>/dev/da4</devicename> device node and a
@@ -766,8 +765,7 @@ ufsid/486b6fc16926168e     N/A  ad4s1f</screen>
     <screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>newfs -O 2 -J /dev/da4.journal</userinput></screen>
 
     <para>The previously issued command will create a
-      <acronym>UFS</acronym>2 file system with journaling being made
-      active.</para>
+      <acronym>UFS</acronym>2 file system on the journaled device.</para>
 
     <para>Effectively <command>mount</command> the device at the
       desired point with:</para>
@@ -780,11 +778,10 @@ ufsid/486b6fc16926168e     N/A  ad4s1f</screen>
 	<devicename>ad4s1</devicename> and <devicename>ad4s2</devicename>
 	are both slices, then <command>gjournal</command> will create
 	<devicename>ad4s1.journal</devicename> and
-	<devicename>ad4s2.journal</devicename>.  In the case of the command
-	being run twice, the result will be <quote>journals</quote>.</para>
+	<devicename>ad4s2.journal</devicename>.</para>
     </note>
 
-    <para>Under some circumstances, keeping the journal on another disk
+    <para>For better performance, keeping the journal on another disk
       may be desired.  For these cases, the journal provider or storage
       device should be listed after the device to enable journaling
       on.  Journaling may also be enabled on current file systems by