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diff --git a/src/generator.ml b/src/generator.ml
index 96a5847..99d80fb 100755
--- a/src/generator.ml
+++ b/src/generator.ml
@@ -3152,7 +3152,7 @@ Unknown file type
 
 =item '?'
 
-The L<readdir(3)> returned a C<d_type> field with an
+The L<readdir(3)> call returned a C<d_type> field with an
 unexpected value
 
 =back
@@ -3925,8 +3925,13 @@ file must exist already.");
    "truncate a file to a particular size",
    "\
 This command truncates C<path> to size C<size> bytes.  The file
-must exist already.  If the file is smaller than C<size> then
-the file is extended to the required size with null bytes.");
+must exist already.
+
+If the current file size is less than C<size> then
+the file is extended to the required size with zero bytes.
+This creates a sparse file (ie. disk blocks are not allocated
+for the file until you write to it).  To create a non-sparse
+file of zeroes, use C<guestfs_fallocate64> instead.");
 
   ("utimens", (RErr, [Pathname "path"; Int64 "atsecs"; Int64 "atnsecs"; Int64 "mtsecs"; Int64 "mtnsecs"]), 201, [],
    [InitBasicFS, Always, TestOutputStruct (
@@ -4036,7 +4041,7 @@ C<names> is the list of files from this directory.
 
 On return you get a list of strings, with a one-to-one
 correspondence to the C<names> list.  Each string is the
-value of the symbol link.
+value of the symbolic link.
 
 If the C<readlink(2)> operation fails on any name, then
 the corresponding result string is the empty string C<\"\">.