diff --git a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/developers-handbook/kerneldebug/chapter.sgml b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/developers-handbook/kerneldebug/chapter.sgml
index 8d823944cf..6aaa4e6738 100644
--- a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/developers-handbook/kerneldebug/chapter.sgml
+++ b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/developers-handbook/kerneldebug/chapter.sgml
@@ -109,7 +109,7 @@
         <para>In the event that there is already a file called
           <filename>vmcore.0</filename> in
           <filename>/var/crash</filename> (or whatever
-          <varname>dumpdev</varname> is set to), the kernel will
+          <varname>dumpdir</varname> is set to), the kernel will
           increment the trailing number for every crash to avoid
           overwriting an existing <filename>vmcore</filename> (eg:
           <filename>vmcore.1</filename>).  While debugging, it is