Improve grammar.

1 files changed, 11 insertions, 7 deletions

diff --git a/sbin/mount/mount.8 b/sbin/mount/mount.8
index 7bac46265c3..8f02551ac08 100644
--- a/sbin/mount/mount.8
+++ b/sbin/mount/mount.8
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\"	$OpenBSD: mount.8,v 1.28 2001/04/04 20:23:39 gluk Exp $
+.\"	$OpenBSD: mount.8,v 1.29 2001/04/06 23:56:28 aaron Exp $
 .\"	$NetBSD: mount.8,v 1.11 1995/07/12 06:23:21 cgd Exp $
 .\"
 .\" Copyright (c) 1980, 1989, 1991, 1993
@@ -147,13 +147,17 @@ The most common use of this flag is to speed up
 .Xr restore 8
 where it can give a factor of two speed increase.
 .It softdep
-(FFS only) Mount the filesystem using soft-dependencies. This means
-that metadata will not be written immediately, but is written in an
-ordered fashion to keep the on-disk state of the filesystem consistent.
+(FFS only.)
+Mount the filesystem using soft dependencies.
+Instead of metadata being written immediately, it is written in an ordered
+fasion to keep the on-disk state of the filesystem consistent.
 This results in significant speedups for file create/delete operations.
-This option will be ignored when using the -u flag and a filesystem
-is already mounted read/write. This option should be used with care.
-It requires the FFS_SOFTUPDATES option to be enabled in the running kernel.
+This option will be ignored when using the
+.Fl u
+flag and a filesystem is already mounted read/write.
+It requires
+.Cm option FFS_SOFTUPDATES
+to be enabled in the running kernel.
 .It force
 The same as
 .Fl f ;