message string changes, mostly for consistency, also -32 bytes in .rodata
diff --git a/miscutils/crond.c b/miscutils/crond.c
index eaed1ea..4fc940b 100644
--- a/miscutils/crond.c
+++ b/miscutils/crond.c
@@ -314,7 +314,7 @@
 		if ((logfd = open(LogFile, O_WRONLY | O_CREAT | O_APPEND, 0600)) >= 0) {
 			close(logfd);
 		} else {
-			bb_perror_msg("Failed to open log file '%s' reason", LogFile);
+			bb_perror_msg("failed to open log file '%s': ", LogFile);
 		}
 	}
 #endif
@@ -883,7 +883,7 @@
 		exit(0);
 	} else if (pid < 0) {
 		/* FORK FAILED */
-		crondlog("\024couldn't fork, user %s\n", user);
+		crondlog("\024cannot fork, user %s\n", user);
 		line->cl_Pid = 0;
 		if (mailf) {
 			remove(mailf);
@@ -1008,7 +1008,7 @@
 		exit(0);
 	} else if (pid < 0) {
 		/* FORK FAILED */
-		crondlog("\024couldn't fork, user %s\n", user);
+		crondlog("\024cannot, user %s\n", user);
 		pid = 0;
 	}
 	line->cl_Pid = pid;
diff --git a/miscutils/hdparm.c b/miscutils/hdparm.c
index 1c9a99e..a30f4e0 100644
--- a/miscutils/hdparm.c
+++ b/miscutils/hdparm.c
@@ -595,7 +595,7 @@
 	}
 	else
 		/*"Unknown device type:\n\tbits 15&14 of general configuration word 0 both set to 1.\n"*/
-		bb_error_msg_and_die("Unknown device type");
+		bb_error_msg_and_die("unknown device type");
 
 	printf("%sremovable media\n", !(val[GEN_CONFIG] & MEDIA_REMOVABLE) ? "non-" : "");
 	/* Info from the specific configuration word says whether or not the
diff --git a/miscutils/less.c b/miscutils/less.c
index 63389dc..11f1d8b 100644
--- a/miscutils/less.c
+++ b/miscutils/less.c
@@ -1113,7 +1113,7 @@
 		if (ttyname(STDIN_FILENO) == NULL)
 			inp_stdin = 1;
 		else {
-			bb_error_msg("Missing filename");
+			bb_error_msg("missing filename");
 			bb_show_usage();
 		}
 	}
diff --git a/miscutils/makedevs.c b/miscutils/makedevs.c
index 6ff5cc2..3bc1559 100644
--- a/miscutils/makedevs.c
+++ b/miscutils/makedevs.c
@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@
 	/* if mode != S_IFCHR and != S_IFBLK third param in mknod() ignored */
 
 		if (mknod(nodname, mode, makedev(Smajor, Sminor)))
-			bb_error_msg("Failed to create: %s", nodname);
+			bb_error_msg("failed to create: %s", nodname);
 
 		if (nodname == basedev) /* ex. /dev/hda - to /dev/hda1 ... */
 			nodname = buf;