Re: man lsblk: For the partitions are some information inherited from
Regid Ichira wrote:
>> NOTES
>> For the partitions are some information (e.g. queue
>> attributes) inherited from parental device.
>
> I am not confident with my English. Is it badly phrased? How it can
> be improved?
It manages to pack a lot of problems into such a short sentence, but
it's obvious what it means:
NOTES
For partitions, some information (e.g. queue attributes) is
inherited from the parent device.
--
JBR with qualifications in linguistics, experience as a Debian
sysadmin, and probably no clue about this particular package
diff -ru util-linux-2.20.1.pristine/misc-utils/lsblk.8 util-linux-2.20.1/misc-utils/lsblk.8
--- util-linux-2.20.1.pristine/misc-utils/lsblk.8 2011-10-18 06:41:47.000000000 +0100
+++ util-linux-2.20.1/misc-utils/lsblk.8 2012-05-12 20:42:06.271392744 +0100
@@ -61,8 +61,7 @@
Output info about block device topology.
This option is equivalent to "-o NAME,ALIGNMENT,MIN-IO,OPT-IO,PHY-SEC,LOG-SEC,ROTA,SCHED".
.SH NOTES
-For the partitions are some information (e.g. queue attributes) inherited from
-parental device.
+For partitions, some information (e.g. queue attributes) is inherited from the parent device.
.SH AUTHORS
.nf
Milan Broz <mbroz@redhat.com>
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