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authorTom Rhodes <trhodes@FreeBSD.org>2002-05-16 01:57:20 +0000
committerTom Rhodes <trhodes@FreeBSD.org>2002-05-16 01:57:20 +0000
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-rw-r--r--bin/ln/ln.14
-rw-r--r--bin/ln/symlink.74
2 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/bin/ln/ln.1 b/bin/ln/ln.1
index d651b98549df..bfdce85fcd18 100644
--- a/bin/ln/ln.1
+++ b/bin/ln/ln.1
@@ -124,7 +124,7 @@ links.
A hard link to a file is indistinguishable from the original directory entry;
any changes to a file are effectively independent of the name used to reference
the file.
-Hard links may not normally refer to directories and may not span file systems.
+Hard links may not normally refer to directories and may not span filesystems.
.Pp
A symbolic link contains the name of the file to
which it is linked. The referenced file is used when an
@@ -138,7 +138,7 @@ must be done to obtain information about the link.
The
.Xr readlink 2
call may be used to read the contents of a symbolic link.
-Symbolic links may span file systems and may refer to directories.
+Symbolic links may span filesystems and may refer to directories.
.Pp
Given one or two arguments,
.Nm
diff --git a/bin/ln/symlink.7 b/bin/ln/symlink.7
index 0e665eb6cb29..0d322d179a93 100644
--- a/bin/ln/symlink.7
+++ b/bin/ln/symlink.7
@@ -47,11 +47,11 @@ it is a reference to the object underlying the original file name.
Changes to a file are independent of the name used to reference the
file.
Hard links may not refer to directories and may not reference files
-on different file systems.
+on different filesystems.
A symbolic link contains the name of the file to which it is linked,
i.e. it is a pointer to another name, and not to an underlying object.
For this reason, symbolic links may reference directories and may span
-file systems.
+filesystems.
.Pp
Because a symbolic link and its referenced object coexist in the filesystem
name space, confusion can arise in distinguishing between the link itself