diff --git a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/introduction/chapter.sgml b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/introduction/chapter.sgml
index bb835f3e52..ee3740b31e 100644
--- a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/introduction/chapter.sgml
+++ b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/introduction/chapter.sgml
@@ -865,7 +865,7 @@
         were over &os.numports; ports!  The list of ports ranges from
         http (WWW) servers, to games, languages, editors, and almost
         everything in between.  The entire ports collection requires
-        approximately 170 MB of storage, all ports being expressed as
+        approximately &ports.size; of storage, all ports being expressed as
         <quote>deltas</quote> to their original sources.  This makes
         it much easier for us to update ports, and greatly reduces the
         disk space demands made by the older 1.0 ports collection.  To