A @dfn{snapshot file} (or @dfn{directory file}) is created during
incremental backups (@pxref{Incremental Dumps}). It
-contains the status of the filesystem at the time of the dump and is
+contains the status of the file system at the time of the dump and is
used to determine which files were modified since the last backup.
@GNUTAR{} version @value{VERSION} supports two snapshot file
second one is the number of nanoseconds, since the beginning of the
epoch.
- Following lines contain directory metadate, one line per
+ Following lines contain directory metadata, one line per
directory. The line format is:
@smallexample