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diff --git a/doc/perm.texi b/doc/perm.texi index a43a33414..6b301b821 100644 --- a/doc/perm.texi +++ b/doc/perm.texi @@ -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, |