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@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ diskstats | Exposes disk I/O statistics from `/proc/diskstats`.
 filefd | Exposes file descriptor statistics.
 filesystem | Exposes filesystem statistics, such as disk space used.
 loadavg | Exposes load average.
-mdadm | Exposes statistics about devices in `/proc/mdstat` (does nothing if no /proc/mdstat present).
+mdadm | Exposes statistics about devices in `/proc/mdstat` (does nothing if no `/proc/mdstat` present).
 meminfo | Exposes memory statistics from `/proc/meminfo`.
 netdev | Exposes network interface statistics from `/proc/netstat`, such as bytes transferred.
 netstat | Exposes network statistics from `/proc/net/netstat`. This is the same information as `netstat -s`.