diff --git a/Documentation/btrfs-man5.asciidoc b/Documentation/btrfs-man5.asciidoc
index 65352009..2af76775 100644
--- a/Documentation/btrfs-man5.asciidoc
+++ b/Documentation/btrfs-man5.asciidoc
@@ -901,7 +901,7 @@ The device is usually created by a system device node manager (eg. udev), but
 can be created manually:
 
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-# mknod --mode=600 c 10 234 /dev/btrfs-control
+# mknod --mode=600 /dev/btrfs-control c 10 234
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 The control device is not strictly required but the device scanning will not