diff --git a/share/man/man5/rc.conf.5 b/share/man/man5/rc.conf.5
index a49f9d9024eb..f530ebe2ef9c 100644
--- a/share/man/man5/rc.conf.5
+++ b/share/man/man5/rc.conf.5
@@ -736,9 +736,11 @@ the system will attempt to run
 in the background where possible.
 .It Va background_fsck_delay
 .Pq Vt int
-The amount of time in seconds to sleep before starting a background fsck.
+The amount of time in seconds to sleep before starting a background
+.Xr fsck 8 .
 It defaults to sixty seconds to allow large applications such as
-the X server to start before disk I/O bandwidth is monopolized by fsck.
+the X server to start before disk I/O bandwidth is monopolized by
+.Xr fsck 8 .
 .It Va extra_netfs_types
 .Pq Vt str
 If set to something other than