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--- a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/disks/chapter.sgml
+++ b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/disks/chapter.sgml
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 <!--
      The FreeBSD Documentation Project
 
-     $FreeBSD: doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/disks/chapter.sgml,v 1.44 2001/08/08 17:27:03 dd Exp $
+     $FreeBSD: doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/disks/chapter.sgml,v 1.45 2001/08/09 23:42:30 chern Exp $
 -->
 
 <chapter id="disks">
@@ -213,7 +213,7 @@
 
       <para>Slices, <quote>dangerously dedicated</quote> physical
 	drives, and other drives contain
-	<firstterm>partitions</firstterm>, which represented as
+	<firstterm>partitions</firstterm>, which are represented as
 	letters from <literal>a</literal> to <literal>h</literal>.
 	<literal>b</literal> is reserved for swap partitions, and
 	<literal>c</literal> is an unused partition the size of the
@@ -300,7 +300,7 @@
 	    filesystems, followed by any other options that may be
 	    needed.  A common option is <option>noauto</option> for
 	    filesystems not normally mounted during the boot sequence.
-	    Other options in the &man.mount.8; manual page.</para>
+	    Other options are listed in the &man.mount.8; manual page.</para>
 	  </listitem>
 	</varlistentry>
 
@@ -342,9 +342,11 @@
 	  <term><option>-a</option></term>
 
 	  <listitem>
-	    <para>Mount all filesystems in
-	      <filename>/etc/fstab</filename>, as modified by
-	      <option>-t</option>, if given.</para>
+	    <para>Mount all the filesystems listed in
+	      <filename>/etc/fstab</filename>.  Exceptions are those
+	      marked as <quote>noauto</quote>, excluded by the
+	      <option>-t</option> flag, or those that are already
+	      mounted.</para>
 	  </listitem>
 	</varlistentry>
 
@@ -352,8 +354,10 @@
 	  <term><option>-d</option></term>
 
 	  <listitem>
-	    <para>Do everything but actually mount the
-	      filesystem.</para>
+	    <para>Do everything except for the actual system call.
+	      This option is useful in conjunction with the
+	      <option>-v</option> flag to determine what the
+	      <command>mount</command> is actually trying to do.</para>
 	  </listitem>
 	</varlistentry>
 
@@ -361,7 +365,10 @@
 	  <term><option>-f</option></term>
 
 	  <listitem>
-	    <para>Force the mounting the filesystem.</para>
+	    <para>Force the mount of an unclean filesystem
+	      (dangerous), or forces the revocation of write access
+  	      when downgrading a filesystem's mount status from
+  	      read-write to read-only.</para>
 	  </listitem>
 	</varlistentry>
 
@@ -369,7 +376,9 @@
 	  <term><option>-r</option></term>
 
 	  <listitem>
-	    <para>Mount the filesystem read-only.</para>
+	    <para>Mount the filesystem read-only.  This is identical
+	      to using the <option>rdonly</option> argument to the
+	      <option>-o</option> option.</para>
 	  </listitem>
 	</varlistentry>
 
@@ -412,7 +421,7 @@
 	</varlistentry>
       </variablelist>
 
-      <para>The <option>-o</option> takes a comma-separated list of
+      <para>The <option>-o</option> option takes a comma-separated list of
 	the options, including the following:</para>
 
       <variablelist>
@@ -421,7 +430,7 @@
 
 	  <listitem>
 	    <para>Do not interpret special devices on the
-	      filesystem.  Useful security option.</para>
+	      filesystem.  This is a useful security option.</para>
 	  </listitem>
 	</varlistentry>
 
@@ -430,7 +439,7 @@
 
 	  <listitem>
 	    <para>Do not allow execution of binaries on this
-	      filesystem.  Useful security option.</para>
+	      filesystem.  This is also a useful security option.</para>
 	  </listitem>
 	</varlistentry>
 
@@ -439,14 +448,14 @@
 
 	  <listitem>
 	    <para>Do not interpret setuid or setgid flags on the
-	      filesystem.  Useful security option.</para>
+	      filesystem.  This is also a useful security option.</para>
 	  </listitem>
 	</varlistentry>
       </variablelist>
     </sect2>
 
     <sect2 id="disks-umount">
-      <title>The umount Command</title>
+      <title>The <command>umount</command> Command</title>
       <indexterm>
         <primary>filesystems</primary>
         <secondary>unmounting</secondary>
@@ -534,7 +543,9 @@
         <primary><application>sysinstall</application></primary>
         <secondary>adding disks</secondary>
       </indexterm>
-
+      <indexterm>
+	<primary>su</primary>
+      </indexterm>
       <procedure>
 	<step>
 	  <title>Navigating <application>Sysinstall</application></title>
@@ -699,7 +710,7 @@
 	linkend="nfs">Network Filesystem</link> and Coda, memory-based
       filesystems such as <link linkend="disks-md">md</link> and
       file-backed filesystems created by <link
-	linkend="disks-vnconfig">vnconfig</link>.</para>
+	linkend="disks-vnconfig">vnconfig</link> or mdconfig.</para>
 
     <sect2 id="disks-vnconfig">
       <title>vnconfig: File-Backed Filesystem</title>
@@ -755,7 +766,7 @@ Filesystem  1K-blocks     Used    Avail Capacity  Mounted on
         <secondary>memory filesystem</secondary>
       </indexterm>
 
-      <para><devicename>md</devicename> is a simple, efficient means to do memory
+      <para><devicename>md</devicename> is a simple, efficient means to create memory
 	filesystems.</para>
 
       <para>Simply take a filesystem you've prepared with, for
@@ -804,8 +815,7 @@ Filesystem  1K-blocks     Used    Avail Capacity  Mounted on
       <para>The stock <filename>GENERIC</filename> kernel does not have
 	this enabled by default, so you will have to configure, build and
 	install a custom kernel in order to use disk quotas.  Please refer
-	to the <link linkend="kernelconfig">Configuring the FreeBSD
-	Kernel</link> section for more information on kernel
+	to <xref linkend="kernelconfig"> for more information on kernel
 	configuration.</para>
 
       <para>Next you will need to enable disk quotas in
@@ -966,8 +976,7 @@ Filesystem  1K-blocks     Used    Avail Capacity  Mounted on
 
       <screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>edquota -p test 10000-19999</userinput></screen>
 	  
-      <para>See the &man.edquota.8; for more detailed
-	information.</para>
+      <para>For more information see &man.edquota.8;.</para>
     </sect2>
 
     <sect2>