diff --git a/sbin/newfs_lfs/newfs_lfs.8 b/sbin/newfs_lfs/newfs_lfs.8
index 9790e5a638f2..eaaddeee3446 100644
--- a/sbin/newfs_lfs/newfs_lfs.8
+++ b/sbin/newfs_lfs/newfs_lfs.8
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\"	$NetBSD: newfs_lfs.8,v 1.2 1999/07/15 19:09:41 perseant Exp $
+.\"	$NetBSD: newfs_lfs.8,v 1.3 2000/01/16 00:44:59 hubertf Exp $
 .\"
 .\" Copyright (c) 1993
 .\"	The Regents of the University of California.  All rights reserved.
@@ -50,7 +50,8 @@ device basing its defaults on the information in the disk label.
 (Before running 
 .Nm
 the disk must be labeled using 
-.Xr disklabel 8 .)
+.Xr disklabel 8 ,
+the proper fstype is 4.4LFS.)
 .Pp
 The following options define the general layout policies.
 .Bl -tag -width Fl