doc: minor grammar fixes

Signed-off-by: Sitsofe Wheeler <sitsofe@yahoo.com>

diff --git a/HOWTO b/HOWTO
index 67888e7ce67b8af9b663300b2e636df972538898..fe5c3cb193e9172275e0df47730158309fd33e5b 100644 (file)
--- a/HOWTO
+++ b/HOWTO
@@ -1015,8 +1015,8 @@ I/O type
 
        ``sequential`` is only useful for random I/O, where fio would normally
        generate a new random offset for every I/O. If you append e.g. 8 to randread,
-       you would get a new random offset for every 8 I/O's. The result would be a
-       seek for only every 8 I/O's, instead of for every I/O. Use ``rw=randread:8``
+       you would get a new random offset for every 8 I/Os. The result would be a
+       seek for only every 8 I/Os, instead of for every I/O. Use ``rw=randread:8``
        to specify that. As sequential I/O is already sequential, setting
        ``sequential`` for that would not result in any differences.  ``identical``
        behaves in a similar fashion, except it sends the same offset 8 number of
@@ -3243,7 +3243,7 @@ numbers denote:
 **ios**
                Number of I/Os performed by all groups.
 **merge**
-               Number of merges I/O the I/O scheduler.
+               Number of merges performed by the I/O scheduler.
 **ticks**
                Number of ticks we kept the disk busy.
 **in_queue**
@@ -3279,7 +3279,7 @@ changed for some reason, this number will be incremented by 1 to signify that
 change.
 
 Split up, the format is as follows (comments in brackets denote when a
-field was introduced or whether its specific to some terse version):
+field was introduced or whether it's specific to some terse version):
 
     ::
 

diff --git a/fio.1 b/fio.1
index b56943713dfc227228ed126d00556dbc8d61aa84..f86b7fdf65c0c3b7d1df40f09206325101b94477 100644 (file)
--- a/fio.1
+++ b/fio.1
@@ -453,7 +453,7 @@ the same blocks will be written to.
 Fio defaults to read if the option is not specified.
 For mixed I/O, the default split is 50/50. For certain types of io the result
 may still be skewed a bit, since the speed may be different. It is possible to
-specify a number of IO's to do before getting a new offset, this is done by
+specify a number of IOs to do before getting a new offset, this is done by
 appending a `:\fI<nr>\fR to the end of the string given. For a random read, it
 would look like \fBrw=randread:8\fR for passing in an offset modifier with a
 value of 8. If the postfix is used with a sequential IO pattern, then the value
@@ -478,8 +478,8 @@ Generate the same offset
 .P
 \fBsequential\fR is only useful for random IO, where fio would normally
 generate a new random offset for every IO. If you append eg 8 to randread, you
-would get a new random offset for every 8 IO's. The result would be a seek for
-only every 8 IO's, instead of for every IO. Use \fBrw=randread:8\fR to specify
+would get a new random offset for every 8 IOs. The result would be a seek for
+only every 8 IOs, instead of for every IO. Use \fBrw=randread:8\fR to specify
 that. As sequential IO is already sequential, setting \fBsequential\fR for that
 would not result in any differences.  \fBidentical\fR behaves in a similar
 fashion, except it sends the same offset 8 number of times before generating a
@@ -2252,7 +2252,7 @@ Finally, disk statistics are printed with reads first:
 Number of I/Os performed by all groups.
 .TP
 .B merge
-Number of merges in the I/O scheduler.
+Number of merges performed by the I/O scheduler.
 .TP
 .B ticks
 Number of ticks we kept the disk busy.