diff --git a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/disks/chapter.sgml b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/disks/chapter.sgml
index 6ebcffd7f4..401ea85f87 100644
--- a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/disks/chapter.sgml
+++ b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/disks/chapter.sgml
@@ -377,7 +377,7 @@
 	<para>To sum it up, I need something that will give me the most
 	  amount of storage space for my money.  The cost of large IDE disks
 	  are cheap these days.  I found a place that was selling Western
-	  Digital 30.7gb 5400 RPM IDE disks for about one-hundred and thirty
+	  Digital 30.7GB 5400 RPM IDE disks for about one-hundred and thirty
 	  US dollars.  I bought three of them, giving me approximately
 	  ninety gigabytes of online storage.</para>
 
@@ -825,7 +825,7 @@ ar0: ATA RAID1 subdisks: ad4 ad6 status: REBUILDING 0% completed</screen>
 
       <para>There are many other options you can use with
 	<filename role="package">sysutils/mkisofs</filename> to fine-tune its behavior.  In particular:
-	modifications to an ISO 9660 layout and the creation of Joilet
+	modifications to an ISO 9660 layout and the creation of Joliet
 	and HFS discs.  See the	&man.mkisofs.8; manual page for details.</para>
     </sect2>
 
@@ -965,7 +965,7 @@ scsibus1:
 
 	<step>
 	  <para>Extract each track using &man.dd.1;.  You must also use a
-	    specific blocksize when extracting the files.</para>
+	    specific block size when extracting the files.</para>
 
 	  <screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>dd if=/dev/acd0t1 of=track1.cdr bs=2352</userinput>
 &prompt.root; <userinput>dd if=/dev/acd0t2 of=track2.cdr bs=2352</userinput>
@@ -1165,10 +1165,10 @@ scsibus1:
       <screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>/usr/sbin/fdformat /dev/fd0.1720</userinput></screen>
 
       <para>It will take some more time than before (forced disks are
-        slower).  When it finishes, you will have a 1720kb floppy disk,
+        slower).  When it finishes, you will have a 1720kB floppy disk,
         but for the moment you will not notice any difference. You may
         use other disk sizes that you can find in <filename>/dev</filename>, but the most
-        stable/compatible is the 1720kb for 3.5inch disks.</para>
+        stable/compatible is the 1720kB for 3.5inch disks.</para>
     </sect2>
 
     <sect2>
@@ -2645,13 +2645,13 @@ Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity  Mounted on
 	editor.</para>
 
       <para>Sometimes it is desirable to set quota limits on a range of
-	uids.  This can be done by use of the <option>-p</option> option
+	UIDs.  This can be done by use of the <option>-p</option> option
 	on the <command>edquota</command> command.  First, assign the
 	desired quota limit to a user, and then run
 	<command>edquota -p protouser startuid-enduid</command>.  For
 	example, if user <username>test</username> has the desired quota
 	limits, the following command can be used to duplicate those quota
-	limits for uids 10,000 through 19,999:</para>
+	limits for UIDs 10,000 through 19,999:</para>
 
       <screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>edquota -p test 10000-19999</userinput></screen>