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-rw-r--r--man7/capabilities.72
-rw-r--r--man7/symlink.76
2 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/man7/capabilities.7 b/man7/capabilities.7
index a1adcb578e..aba8ed87f1 100644
--- a/man7/capabilities.7
+++ b/man7/capabilities.7
@@ -182,7 +182,7 @@ Set the
and
.B FS_IMMUTABLE_FL
.\" These attributes are now available on ext2, ext3, Reiserfs, XFS, JFS
-i-node flags (see
+inode flags (see
.BR chattr (1)).
.TP
.BR CAP_MAC_ADMIN " (since Linux 2.6.25)"
diff --git a/man7/symlink.7 b/man7/symlink.7
index b0b22fd317..d9ef6d2be6 100644
--- a/man7/symlink.7
+++ b/man7/symlink.7
@@ -46,8 +46,8 @@ A hard link to a file is indistinguishable from the original file because
it is a reference to the object underlying the original filename.
(To be precise: each of the hard links to a file is a reference to
the same
-.IR "i-node number" ,
-where an i-node number is an index into the i-node table,
+.IR "inode number" ,
+where an inode number is an index into the inode table,
which contains metadata about all files on a filesystem.
See
.BR stat (2).)
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ Hard links may not refer to directories
(to prevent the possibility of loops within the filesystem tree,
which would confuse many programs)
and may not refer to files on different filesystems
-(because i-node numbers are not unique across filesystems).
+(because inode numbers are not unique across filesystems).
A symbolic link is a special type of file whose contents are a string
that is the pathname of another file, the file to which the link refers.