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@@ -198,7 +198,7 @@ sections.
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 fio also supports environment variable expansion in job files. Any
-substring of the form "${VARNAME}" as part of an option value (in other
+sub-string of the form "${VARNAME}" as part of an option value (in other
 words, on the right of the `='), will be expanded to the value of the
 environment variable called VARNAME.  If no such environment variable
 is defined, or VARNAME is the empty string, the empty string will be
@@ -875,8 +875,8 @@ fsync=int   If writing to a file, issue a sync of the dirty data
 
 fdatasync=int  Like fsync= but uses fdatasync() to only sync data and not
                metadata blocks.
-               In FreeBSD and Windows there is no fdatasync(), this falls back to
-               using fsync()
+               In FreeBSD and Windows there is no fdatasync(), this falls back
+               to using fsync()
 
 sync_file_range=str:val        Use sync_file_range() for every 'val' number of
                write operations. Fio will track range of writes that
@@ -1956,18 +1956,18 @@ Split up, the format is as follows:
        terse version, fio version, jobname, groupid, error
        READ status:
                Total IO (KB), bandwidth (KB/sec), IOPS, runtime (msec)
-               Submission latency: min, max, mean, deviation (usec)
-               Completion latency: min, max, mean, deviation (usec)
+               Submission latency: min, max, mean, stdev (usec)
+               Completion latency: min, max, mean, stdev (usec)
                Completion latency percentiles: 20 fields (see below)
-               Total latency: min, max, mean, deviation (usec)
-               Bw (KB/s): min, max, aggregate percentage of total, mean, deviation
+               Total latency: min, max, mean, stdev (usec)
+               Bw (KB/s): min, max, aggregate percentage of total, mean, stdev
        WRITE status:
                Total IO (KB), bandwidth (KB/sec), IOPS, runtime (msec)
-               Submission latency: min, max, mean, deviation (usec)
-               Completion latency: min, max, mean, deviation (usec)
+               Submission latency: min, max, mean, stdev (usec)
+               Completion latency: min, max, mean, stdev(usec)
                Completion latency percentiles: 20 fields (see below)
-               Total latency: min, max, mean, deviation (usec)
-               Bw (KB/s): min, max, aggregate percentage of total, mean, deviation
+               Total latency: min, max, mean, stdev (usec)
+               Bw (KB/s): min, max, aggregate percentage of total, mean, stdev
        CPU usage: user, system, context switches, major faults, minor faults
        IO depths: <=1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, >=64
        IO latencies microseconds: <=2, 4, 10, 20, 50, 100, 250, 500, 750, 1000