diff --git a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/geom/chapter.sgml b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/geom/chapter.sgml
index 7ad343aecc..318668e23a 100644
--- a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/geom/chapter.sgml
+++ b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/geom/chapter.sgml
@@ -313,7 +313,7 @@ Done.</screen>
       screen for any error messages and mount the device to the
       <filename role="directory">/mnt</filename> mount point:</para>
 
-    <screen>&prompt.root <userinput>mount /dev/mirror/gm0s1a /mnt</userinput></screen>
+    <screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>mount /dev/mirror/gm0s1a /mnt</userinput></screen>
 
     <para>Now move all data from the boot disk over to this new file
       system.  This example uses the &man.dump.8; and &man.restore.8;