diff --git a/sbin/quotacheck/quotacheck.8 b/sbin/quotacheck/quotacheck.8
index b942789b6787..fb9bed5c13ee 100644
--- a/sbin/quotacheck/quotacheck.8
+++ b/sbin/quotacheck/quotacheck.8
@@ -120,11 +120,18 @@ will create it.
 .Pp
 .Nm Quotacheck
 is normally run at boot time from the
-.Pa /etc/rc.local
-file, see
-.Xr rc 8 ,
-before enabling disk quotas with
-.Xr quotaon 8 .
+.Pa /etc/rc
+file. The rc startup procedure is controlled by the 
+.Pa /etc/rc.conf
+variable 
+.Ar check_quotas .
+Note that to enable this functionality in 
+.Pa /etc/rc
+you also need to enable startup quota procedures
+with the variable
+.Ar enable_quotas 
+in 
+.Pa /etc/rc.conf .
 .Pp
 .Nm Quotacheck
 accesses the raw device in calculating the actual