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authorJim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>2004-06-30 22:09:00 +0000
committerJim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>2004-06-30 22:09:00 +0000
commit5e5f4bc2fb50901b033bb34adebc8adb969842cd (patch)
treeac269d3766e1160108a8993f9728ba01c17b6871 /doc/perm.texi
parent697c4afab54f5a2d6e748baf040cffb278fda727 (diff)
downloadcoreutils-5e5f4bc2fb50901b033bb34adebc8adb969842cd.tar.xz
Standardize on "file system" rather
than "filesystem", as POSIX prefers it with a space.
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@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ everyone else.
Files are given an owner and group when they are created. Usually the
owner is the current user and the group is the group of the directory
the file is in, but this varies with the operating system, the
-filesystem the file is created on, and the way the file is created. You
+file system the file is created on, and the way the file is created. You
can change the owner and group of a file by using the @command{chown} and
@command{chgrp} commands.
@@ -78,20 +78,20 @@ unless they own the file or the directory; this is called the
@end enumerate
In addition to the permissions listed above, there may be file attributes
-specific to the filesystem, e.g: access control lists (ACLs), whether a
+specific to the file system, e.g: access control lists (ACLs), whether a
file is compressed, whether a file can be modified (immutability), whether
a file can be dumped. These are usually set using programs
-specific to the filesystem. For example:
+specific to the file system. For example:
@c should probably say a lot more about ACLs... someday
@table @asis
@item ext2
On GNU and Linux/GNU the file permissions (``attributes'') specific to
-the ext2 filesystem are set using @command{chattr}.
+the ext2 file system are set using @command{chattr}.
@item FFS
On FreeBSD the file permissions (``flags'') specific to the FFS
-filesystem are set using @command{chrflags}.
+file system are set using @command{chrflags}.
@end table
Although a file's permission ``bits'' allow an operation on that file,
@@ -99,10 +99,10 @@ that operation may still fail, because:
@itemize
@item
-the filesystem-specific permissions do not permit it;
+the file-system-specific permissions do not permit it;
@item
-the filesystem is mounted as read-only.
+the file system is mounted as read-only.
@end itemize
For example, if the immutable attribute is set on a file,