From ebecd08c0582ef9c01f784452f87f3a39cf40cdd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: David Bryant <davidbryant@gvtc.com>
Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2022 13:15:01 -0600
Subject: Corrected grammar, spelling, and idiom in chapter 7.

---
 chapter07/kernfs.xml | 42 +++++++++++++++++++++---------------------
 1 file changed, 21 insertions(+), 21 deletions(-)

(limited to 'chapter07/kernfs.xml')

diff --git a/chapter07/kernfs.xml b/chapter07/kernfs.xml
index 3e96bee5e..48826d06c 100644
--- a/chapter07/kernfs.xml
+++ b/chapter07/kernfs.xml
@@ -15,13 +15,13 @@
   </indexterm>
 
     <para>Applications running in user space utilize various file 
-    systems exported by the kernel to communicate 
+    systems created by the kernel to communicate 
     with the kernel itself. These file systems are virtual: no disk
-    space is used for them. The content of the file systems resides in
+    space is used for them. The content of these file systems resides in
     memory. These file systems must be mounted in the $LFS directory tree
     so the applications can find them in the chroot environment.</para>
 
-    <para>Begin by creating directories on which the file systems will be
+    <para>Begin by creating the directories on which these virtual file systems will be
     mounted:</para>
 
 <screen><userinput>mkdir -pv $LFS/{dev,proc,sys,run}</userinput></screen>
@@ -29,31 +29,31 @@
   <sect2 id="ch-tools-bindmount">
     <title>Mounting and Populating /dev</title>
 
-      <para>During a normal boot of the LFS system, the kernel automatically
+      <para>During a normal boot of an LFS system, the kernel automatically
       mounts the <systemitem class="filesystem">devtmpfs</systemitem>
-      filesystem on the
+      file system on the
       <filename class="directory">/dev</filename> directory; the kernel
-      creates device nodes on that virtual filesystem during the boot process
+      creates device nodes on that virtual file system during the boot process,
       or when a device is first detected or accessed. The udev daemon may
-      change the owner or permission of the device nodes created by the
-      kernel, or create new device nodes or symlinks to ease the work of
-      distro maintainers or system administrators.  (See
+      change the ownership or permissions of the device nodes created by the
+      kernel, and create new device nodes or symlinks, to ease the work of
+      distro maintainers and system administrators.  (See
       <xref linkend='ch-config-udev-device-node-creation'/> for details.)
       If the host kernel supports &devtmpfs;, we can simply mount a
       &devtmpfs; at <filename class='directory'>$LFS/dev</filename> and rely
-      on the kernel to populate it (the LFS building process does not need
-      the additional work onto &devtmpfs; by udev daemon).</para>
-
-      <para>But, some host kernels may lack &devtmpfs; support and these
-      host distros maintain the content of
-      <filename class="directory">/dev</filename> with different methods.
-      So the only host-agnostic way for populating
-      <filename class="directory">$LFS/dev</filename> is
-      bind mounting the host system's
+      on the kernel to populate it (i.e., the udev daemon will do the
+      necessary work automatically).</para>
+
+      <para>But some host kernels lack &devtmpfs; support; these
+      host distros use different methods to create the content of
+      <filename class="directory">/dev</filename>.
+      So the only host-agnostic way to populate the
+      <filename class="directory">$LFS/dev</filename> directory is
+      by bind mounting the host system's
       <filename class="directory">/dev</filename> directory. A bind mount is
-      a special type of mount that allows you to create a mirror of a
+      a special type of mount that generates a duplicate copy of a
       directory or mount point at some other location. Use the following
-      command to do this:</para>
+      command to do this.</para>
 
 <screen><userinput>mount -v --bind /dev $LFS/dev</userinput></screen>
 
@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@
   <sect2 id="ch-tools-kernfsmount">
     <title>Mounting Virtual Kernel File Systems</title>
 
-      <para>Now mount the remaining virtual kernel filesystems:</para>
+      <para>Now mount the remaining virtual kernel file systems:</para>
 
 <screen><userinput>mount -v --bind /dev/pts $LFS/dev/pts
 mount -vt proc proc $LFS/proc
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