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@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ Linux Software Raid.
.SH DESCRIPTION
RAID devices are virtual devices created from two or more
real block devices. This allows multiple devices (typically disk
-drives or partitions there-of) to be combined into a single device to
+drives or partitions thereof) to be combined into a single device to
hold (for example) a single filesystem.
Some RAID levels include redundancy and so can survive some degree of
device failure.
@@ -310,7 +310,7 @@ on the device, either at the end (for 1.0), at the start (for 1.1) or
.TP
.B --homehost=
-This will over-ride any
+This will override any
.B HOMEHOST
setting in the config file and provides the identify of the host which
should be considered the home for any arrays.
@@ -597,7 +597,7 @@ If
.I --scan
is also given, then any
.I auto=
-entries in the config file will over-ride the
+entries in the config file will override the
.I --auto
instruction given on the command line.
@@ -934,9 +934,9 @@ mark array as readwrite.
.TP
.B --zero-superblock
If the device contains a valid md superblock, the block is
-over-written with zeros. With
+overwritten with zeros. With
--force
-the block where the superblock would be is over-written even if it
+the block where the superblock would be is overwritten even if it
doesn't appear to be valid.
.TP
@@ -1279,7 +1279,7 @@ When creating a RAID5 array,
will automatically create a degraded array with an extra spare drive.
This is because building the spare into a degraded array is in general faster than resyncing
the parity on a non-degraded, but not clean, array. This feature can
-be over-ridden with the
+be overridden with the
.I --force
option.