diff --git a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/geom/chapter.sgml b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/geom/chapter.sgml
index 8ab79c36a4..fccafba511 100644
--- a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/geom/chapter.sgml
+++ b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/geom/chapter.sgml
@@ -154,7 +154,7 @@
       <step><para>Ensure that a suitable mount point exists.  If this
         volume will become a root partition, then temporarily use
         another mount point such as <filename
-        role="directory">/mnt</filename>.</para>
+        role="directory">/mnt</filename>:</para>
 
         <screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>mkdir /mnt</userinput></screen>
       </step>