diff --git a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports/chapter.sgml b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports/chapter.sgml
index 1a3b23a55b..c2a1118495 100644
--- a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports/chapter.sgml
+++ b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports/chapter.sgml
@@ -1097,17 +1097,17 @@ ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/distfiles/ fetch
ports
disk-space
- Using the ports collection can defiantly eat up your disk
- space. For this reason you should always remember to clean up
- the work directories using the make
- clean option. This will remove
- the work directory after a port has been
- built, and installed. You can also remove the tar files from
- the distfiles directory, and remove the
- installed ports when their use has delimited.
+ Using the ports collection will use up disk
+ space over time. For this reason you should always remember to clean up
+ the temporary work directories using the make
+ clean command. This will remove
+ the work directory after a port has been
+ built and installed. You can also remove the source distribution files from
+ the distfiles directory, and remove the
+ installed ports if the need for them has passed.
- Some users choose to limit the port categories by placing an entry
- in the refuse file. This way when they run the
+ Some users choose to limit the available port categories by placing an entry
+ in the refuse file. This way, when they run the
CVSup application, it will not download the
files in that category. More information regarding the
refuse file can be found in