diff --git a/chapter02/creatingfilesystem.xml b/chapter02/creatingfilesystem.xml
index ae1f5b8c6..d69978ebb 100644
--- a/chapter02/creatingfilesystem.xml
+++ b/chapter02/creatingfilesystem.xml
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
   %general-entities;
 ]>
 <sect1 id="space-creatingfilesystem">
-<title>Creating a file system on the new partition</title>
+<title>Creating a file system</title>
 <?dbhtml filename="creatingfilesystem.html"?>
 
 <para>Now that we have a blank partition, we can create a file system on it.
diff --git a/chapter06/devices.xml b/chapter06/devices.xml
index b14789fa0..297e06e06 100644
--- a/chapter06/devices.xml
+++ b/chapter06/devices.xml
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
   %general-entities;
 ]>
 <sect1 id="ch-system-devices" xreflabel="devices">
-<title>Populating /dev with device nodes</title>
+<title>Populating /dev</title>
 <?dbhtml filename="devices.html"?>
 
 <indexterm zone="ch-system-devices"><primary sortas="e-Devices">Devices</primary></indexterm>
diff --git a/chapter06/pwdgroup.xml b/chapter06/pwdgroup.xml
index ad1c36723..bb7a09066 100644
--- a/chapter06/pwdgroup.xml
+++ b/chapter06/pwdgroup.xml
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
   %general-entities;
 ]>
 <sect1 id="ch-system-pwdgroup">
-<title>Creating the passwd, group and log files</title>
+<title>The passwd, group and log files</title>
 <?dbhtml filename="pwdgroup.html"?>
 
 <indexterm zone="ch-system-pwdgroup"><primary sortas="e-/etc/passwd">/etc/passwd</primary></indexterm>
diff --git a/chapter07/usage.xml b/chapter07/usage.xml
index 686d4be7d..98bcc6515 100644
--- a/chapter07/usage.xml
+++ b/chapter07/usage.xml
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
   %general-entities;
 ]>
 <sect1 id="ch-scripts-usage">
-<title>How does the booting process with these scripts work?</title>
+<title>How work these bootscripts?</title>
 <?dbhtml filename="usage.html"?>
 
 <indexterm zone="ch-scripts-usage">