Clean up grammar / idiom in chapter 2.7 (Mounting the New Partition)

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<title>Mounting the New Partition</title>
<para>Now that a file system has been created, the partition needs to
be made accessible. In order to do this, the partition needs to be
mounted at a chosen mount point. For the purposes of this book, it is
assumed that the file system is mounted under the directory specified by the
<envar>LFS</envar> environment variable as described in the previous section.
<para>Now that a file system has been created, the partition must
be mounted so the host system can access it. This book assumes that
the file system is mounted at the directory specified by the
<envar>LFS</envar> environment variable described in the previous section.
</para>
<para>Create the mount point and mount the LFS file system by running:</para>
<para>Create the mount point and mount the LFS file system with these commands:</para>
<screen role="nodump"><userinput>mkdir -pv $LFS
mount -v -t ext4 /dev/<replaceable>&lt;xxx&gt;</replaceable> $LFS</userinput></screen>
<para>Replace <replaceable>&lt;xxx&gt;</replaceable> with the designation of the LFS
<para>Replace <replaceable>&lt;xxx&gt;</replaceable> with the name of the LFS
partition.</para>
<para>If using multiple partitions for LFS (e.g., one for <filename
class="directory">/</filename> and another for <filename
class="directory">/home</filename>), mount them using:</para>
<para>If you are using multiple partitions for LFS (e.g., one for
<filename class="directory">/</filename> and another for <filename
class="directory">/home</filename>), mount them like this:</para>
<screen role="nodump"><userinput>mkdir -pv $LFS
mount -v -t ext4 /dev/<replaceable>&lt;xxx&gt;</replaceable> $LFS
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<option>nodev</option> options). Run the <command>mount</command> command
without any parameters to see what options are set for the mounted LFS
partition. If <option>nosuid</option> and/or <option>nodev</option> are set,
the partition will need to be remounted.</para>
the partition must be remounted.</para>
<warning><para>The above instructions assume that you will not be restarting
<warning><para>The above instructions assume that you will not restart
your computer throughout the LFS process. If you shut down your system,
you will either need to remount the LFS partition each time you restart
the build process or modify your host system's /etc/fstab file to automatically
remount it upon boot. For example:
the build process, or modify the host system's /etc/fstab file to automatically
remount it when you reboot. For example, you might add this line to your
/etc/fstab file:
<screen role="nodump">/dev/<replaceable>&lt;xxx&gt;</replaceable> /mnt/lfs ext4 defaults 1 1</screen>
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<para>Replace <replaceable>&lt;zzz&gt;</replaceable> with the name of the
<systemitem class="filesystem">swap</systemitem> partition.</para>
<para>Now that there is an established place to work, it is time to
<para>Now that the new LFS partition is open for business, it's time to
download the packages.</para>
</sect1>